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Friedrich Ernst, Baron von Sehlotheim
(1764 - 1832)
German geologist and palaeontologist.
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Science Quotes by Friedrich Ernst, Baron von Sehlotheim (1 quote)
Where could the naturalist seek for more telling documents of the history of creation than in the fossils themselves?
— Friedrich Ernst, Baron von Sehlotheim
Taschenbuch für Gesammte Mineralogie, 1813, 7, 2.
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) -- 
