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François-Alexandre-Nicolas-Cheri Delsarte
(11 Nov 1811 - 20 Jul 1871)
French singing teacher who invented the Delsarte system of bodily movements, designed to develop coordination, grace, and expressiveness.
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Science Quotes by François-Alexandre-Nicolas-Cheri Delsarte (1 quote)
Science and art are the handmaids of religion.
— François-Alexandre-Nicolas-Cheri Delsarte
In collection compiled by Charles Noel Douglas, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical (1917), 1536. That is predated by a statement, without quotation marks, merely descriptive of Delsarte’s frame of mind, in F. A. Dursvage, 'Delsarte', Atlantic Monthly (May 1871), 620, printed as: Like all minds of high rank, he [Delsarte] holds that science and art are the handmaids of religion.
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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