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William Hogarth
(10 Nov 1697 - 26 Oct 1764)
English painter, engraver and satirist who is best known for his series paintings of “modern moral subjects,” and a series of paintings satirising contemporary customs, which includes “The Rake’s Progress.”
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Science Quotes by William Hogarth (3 quotes)
Forms of most grace have least of the straight line in them.
— William Hogarth
From The Analysis of Beauty, collected in Thomas Cook, Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth, and Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored (1803), 125.
I know no such thing as genius,—genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
— William Hogarth
Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), 106.
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.
— William Hogarth
From The Analysis of Beauty, collected in Thomas Cook, Anecdotes of Mr. Hogarth, and Explanatory Descriptions of the Plates of Hogarth Restored (1803), 125.
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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