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Sir James Bryce
(10 May 1838 - 22 Jan 1922)
Irish-English jurist and historian (1st Viscount Bryce) whose noted historical classics are The Holy Roman Empire (1864) and American Commonwealth (1888). Later he served as Ambassador to the United States (1907-13).
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Science Quotes by Sir James Bryce (2 quotes)
Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
— Sir James Bryce
Speech at a dinner for General W.C. Gorgas (23 Mar 1914). In Carl C. Gaither and Andrew SlocombeMedically Speaking (), 204.
No branches of historical inquiry have suffered more from fanciful speculation than those which relate to the origin and attributes of the races of mankind. The differentiation of these races began in prehistoric darkness, and the more obscure a subject is, so much the more fascinating. Hypotheses are tempting, because though it may be impossible to verify them, it is, in the paucity of data, almost equally impossible to refute them.
— Sir James Bryce
Creighton Lecture delivered before the University of London on 22 Feb 1915. Race Sentiment as a Factor in History (1915), 3.
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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