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Nicholas Belleville
(1753 - 17 Dec 1831)
French-American physician.
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Science Quotes by Nicholas Belleville (2 quotes)
If you have a lawsuit, and you get one bad lawyer, you lose your suit, but you can appeal; but if you have one bad doctor, and he kills you, then there can be no appeal.
— Nicholas Belleville
In Stephen Wickes and Jonathan Dickinson, History of Medicine in New Jersey: And of Its Medical Men, from the Settlement of the Province to A.D. 1800 (1879), 143.
When you are called to a sick man, be sure you know what the matter is—if you do not know, nature can do a great deal better than you can guess.
— Nicholas Belleville
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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.
(1987) -- 
