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Giambatista Beccaria
(3 Oct 1716 - 27 May 1781)
Italian physicist.
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Science Quotes by Giambatista Beccaria (2 quotes)
For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.
— Giambatista Beccaria
Elettricismo artificiale (1772), vii-viii, trans. in Antonio Pace, Franklin and Italy (1958), 58.
Moral certainty is never more than probability.
— Giambatista Beccaria
On Crimes and Punishments (1764), Chapter 14.
See also:
- 3 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Beccaria's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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