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Giacomo Casanova
(2 Apr 1725 - 4 Jun 1798)
Italian writer and adventurer is known for his life of scandalous conduct, personal charm, notorious lover, gambling and intrigue.
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Science Quotes by Giacomo Casanova (1 quote)
Signor Malipiero … said with good sense, “medicine in the hands of the foolhardy is poison, as poison becomes medicine in the hands of the wise.”
— Giacomo Casanova
In History of My Life (1997), Vol. 1, 159, as translated from French by Willard R. Trask. Alternate forms include, for example, “In wise hands, poison is medicine; in foolish hands, medicine is poison.” The latter is used as an epigraph in Thomas Szasz, Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market (1996), 145.
See also:
- The Story of My Life, by Giacomo Casanova. - book suggestion.
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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