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Francis Lockier
(9 May 1668 - 17 Jul 1740)
English clergyman who was the Dean of Peterborough (1725-1740) and chaplain to the King George I (1717-1727). He was a friend of John Dryden and Alexander Pope
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Science Quotes by Francis Lockier (1 quote)
There was a time, I can assure you, when he was possessed with the old fooleries of astrology; and another when he was so far gone in chemistry as to be
upon the hunt after the philosopher’s stone.
— Francis Lockier
As recalled and recorded in Joseph Spence and Edmund Malone (ed.) Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men (1858), 159.
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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