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Girolamo Cardano
(24 Sep 1501 - 21 Sep 1576)
Italian physician, mathematician and astrologer (Gerolamo Cardano, or Jerome Cardan) who helped create modern algebra and invented the universal joint.
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Science Quotes by Girolamo Cardano (3 quotes)
Quinquies exscriptus, maneat tot millibus annis.
(I wrote it out five times, may it last the same number of millennia.)
(I wrote it out five times, may it last the same number of millennia.)
— Girolamo Cardano
final line of Ars magna
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'
— Girolamo Cardano
The Book of Games of Chance (1663), final sentences, trans. Sydney Henry Gould. In Oysten Ore, The Gambling Scholar (1953), 241.
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard, is a natural occurrence and deserves to be so deemed; and even when they come up the same way for a second time if the throw be repeated. If the third and fourth plays are the same, surely there is occasion for suspicion on the part of a prudent man.
— Girolamo Cardano
from De Vita Propria Liber
See also:
- 24 Sep - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Cardano's birth.
- Girolama Cardano - Jerome Cardan - Biography (1854)
- The Book of My Life, by Girolamo Cardano. - book suggestion.
- Booklist for Girolamo Cardano.
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) -- 
