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Charles Macklin
(c. 1690 - 11 Jul 1797)
Irish actor and dramatist who as an actor played Shakesperean characters many times throughout a long career. He distinguished the role of Shylock by breaking it from a traditional comic portrayal. His brushes with the law include successfully defending himself at trial for murder resulting from accidentally killing a man during a quarrel. His birthdate is uncertain, although he claimed to be a centenarian before his death.
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Science Quotes by Charles Macklin (1 quote)
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
— Charles Macklin
Love à la Mode, Act 2. Scene 1. In John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (1868), 304.
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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