“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”

—  Yann Martel , book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 1, p. 5

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Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi 1963

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