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Juvenal
(c. 50 - c. 127)
Roman poet who is known for his 16 forceful satiric poems, in which he attacked the vice, crime, and the misuse of wealth corrupting society in Rome, and the follies and brutalities of mankind.
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Science Quotes by Juvenal (1 quote)
Nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit.
No mathematician is esteemed a genius until condemned.
No mathematician is esteemed a genius until condemned.
— Juvenal
“Mathematician” as used here, is in the sense of astrologer, or soothsayer. In Liberii, Satura VI, 562.
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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