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Lord Francis Jeffrey
(23 Oct 1773 - 26 Jan 1850)
Scottish lawyer and literary critic.
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Science Quotes by Lord Francis Jeffrey (3 quotes)
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
— Lord Francis Jeffrey
Attributed.
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.
— Lord Francis Jeffrey
In Tryon Edwards (ed.), A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), 502.
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.
— Lord Francis Jeffrey
In Tryon Edwards (ed.), A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), 339.
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) -- 
