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Roger Joseph Boscovich
(18 May 1711 - 13 Feb 1787)
Serbo-Croatian astronomer and mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Roger Joseph Boscovich (3 quotes)
Homo hominem arreptum a tellure, et utcunque exigua impulsum vi, vel uno etiam oris flatu impetitum, ab hominum omnium commercio in infinitum expelleret, nunquam per totam aeternitatem rediturum.
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.
— Roger Joseph Boscovich
Philosophiae Naturalis Theoria (1758), Vol. 1, para. DXLIII, 293.
It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from these forces, as a matter of fact, all phenomena of Nature take their origin.
— Roger Joseph Boscovich
Philosophiae Naturalis Theoria (1758), sec. 1. 5
Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.
— Roger Joseph Boscovich
'De litteraria expeditione per pontificiam ditionem', Accademia della scienze, Bologna, Commentarii, 1757, 4, 353, 361. Trans. J. L. Heilbron, Weighing Imponderables and Other Quantitative Science around 1800 (1993), 227.
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- 18 May - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Boscovich'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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