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Edward Jordan
(1569 - 7 Jan 1632)
English physician who was educated at Oxford, earned his M.D. degree at Padua (c. 1591), and became a Licentiate of the College of Physicians (7 Nov 1595) and a Fellow (22 Dec 1597). Thereafter he moved from London to Bath where he spent the rest of his life. He wrote A Discourse of Natural Baths and Mineral Waters (1631).
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Science Quotes by Edward Jordan (1 quote)
[The] seminary spirit of minerals hath its proper wombs where it resides, and is like a Prince or Emperour, whose prescripts both Elements and matter must obey; and it is never idle, but always in action, producing and maintaining natural substances, untill they have fulfilled their destiny.
— Edward Jordan
A Discourse of Natural Bathes, and Mineral Waters (1669), 104.
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) -- 
