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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
(17 Jan 1860 - 2 Jul 1904)
Russian playwright and physician remembered for short stories, novels and plays including Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904). Although he studied medicine but practiced little. He died at the early age of 44, of tuberculosis.
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Science Quotes by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (4)
A writer must be as objective as a chemist: he must abandon the subjective line; he must know that dung-heaps play a very reasonable part in a landscape, and that the evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones.
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Letter to M. V. Kiselev, 14 January 1887. In L. S. Friedland (ed.), Anton Chekov: Letters on the Short Story (1967).
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
ĵIvanovĵ (1887), Act I.
If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable.
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard (1904), Act 1. Trans. Elisaveta Fen.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Note-Books of Anton Tchekhov (1967), trans. S. S. Koteliansky and L. Woolf, 4.
