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Jean de La Fontaine
(8 Jul 1621 - 13 Apr 1695)
French poet and man of letters was one of the great classical author in France. He published 12 books, including a six-volume set of Fables.
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Science Quotes by Jean de La Fontaine (3 quotes)
La savoir a son prix.
Knowledge has its price.
Knowledge has its price.
— Jean de La Fontaine
From 'L’Advantage de la Science' (The Advantage of Knowledge) in Fables and Tales from La Fontaine: In French and English (1734), 119.
On rencontre sa destinée souvent par des chemins qu’on prend pour l’éviter.
Man meets his destiny oft by the roads he takes to escape it.
Man meets his destiny oft by the roads he takes to escape it.
— Jean de La Fontaine
In 'L’Horoscope', Fables, Vol. 8, 16. (1668–1679). Reprinted in Fables Choisies de La Fontaine (1730), 198. As translated in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Colonel Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (1901), 172.
Nothing is useless for the man of sense; he turns everything to account.
— Jean de La Fontaine
In Hialmer Day Gould, New Practical Spelling (1905), 13.
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) -- 
