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Peter Mere Latham
(1 Jul 1789 - 20 Jul 1875)
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Science Quotes by Peter Mere Latham (5 quotes)
A small overweight of knowledge is often a sore impediment to the movements of common sense.
— Peter Mere Latham
In The Collected Works of Dr. P.M. Latham (1878), Vol. 2, 388.
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.
— Peter Mere Latham
In The Collected Works of Dr. P.M. Latham (1878), Vol. 2, 408.
The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.
— Peter Mere Latham
As quoted “I have heard him say” by Sir Thomas Watson, in 'In Memoriam', The Collected Works of Dr. P.M. Latham (1878), Vol. 1, xxv. The 'In Memoriam' was reprinted from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports, Vol. 11.
There is nothing so captivating as NEW knowledge.
— Peter Mere Latham
In The Collected Works of Dr. P.M. Latham (1878), Vol. 1, 51.
Unfortunately, where there is no experiment of exact science to settle the matter, it takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.
— Peter Mere Latham
In Robert Martin (ed.), 'General Remarks on the Practice of Medicine', The Collected Works of Dr. P. M. Latham (1873), Vol. 2, 398.
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) -- 
