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Aaron Hill
(10 Feb 1685 - 8 Feb 1750)
English writer and playwright who was for a while the Theatre Royal manager, at age 24. He helped stage the opening of Handel’s Rinaldo. Hill wrote or adapted 17 plays, as well as essays, and some poetry.
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Science Quotes by Aaron Hill (2 quotes)
O’er nature’s laws God cast the veil of night,
Out blaz’d a Newton’s soul—and all was light.
Out blaz’d a Newton’s soul—and all was light.
— Aaron Hill
Two-line poem, 'On Sir Isaac Newton', collected in Works of the Late Aaron Hill (1753), Vol. 4, 92.
O’er Nature’s laws God cast the veil of night, Out-blaz’d a Newton’s soul—and all was light.
— Aaron Hill
In On Sir Isaac Newton.
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) -- 
