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Thomas Fuller
(baptised 19 Jun 1608 - 16 Aug 1661)
English clergyman and historian who became chaplain in extraordinary to Charles II (1660). His books includ History of the Holy Warre (i.e. the Crusades, 1643) and Church-History of Britain (1655).
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Science Quotes by Thomas Fuller (1 quote)
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Mahomet’s tombe at Mecha is said strangely to hang up, attracted by some invisible Loadstone, but the Memory of this Doctor will never fall to the ground, which his incomparable Book ‘De Magnete’ will support to Eternity.
— Thomas Fuller
In The History of the The Worthies of England (1662, 1840), Vol. 1, 515.
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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