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Ferdinand Brunetière
(19 Jul 1849 - 9 Dec 1906)
French literary critic.
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Science Quotes by Ferdinand Brunetière (1 quote)
The great error of the 19th century, in morality as well as in science and art, has been to mingle and confound man and nature without pausing to consider that in art as in science and morality he is a man only in so far as he distinguishes himself from nature and makes himself an exception to it.
— Ferdinand Brunetière
As quoted in Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959 (1969), 122.
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) -- 
