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Nicholas Chamfort
(6 Apr 1741 - 13 Apr 1794)
French wit and writer whose works include stories, dramas, and political articles. The aphorisms in his posthumously published Maximes et Pensées (1795) attacked the corruption of the period.
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Science Quotes by Nicholas Chamfort (2 quotes)
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
— Nicholas Chamfort
Maximes et pensées (1796), Vol. 1, No. 17.
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests—a gold mine.
— Nicholas Chamfort
In Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort and William Stanley Merwin, Products of the Perfected Civilization: Selected Writings of Chamfort (1969), 154.
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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