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Colin Maclaurin
(Feb 1698 - 14 Jan 1746)
Scottish mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Colin Maclaurin (1 quote)
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view, the whole scheme of nature; but to extend, with great care and circumspection, our knowledge, by just steps, from sensible things, as far as our observations or reasonings from them will carry us, in our enquiries concerning either the greater motions and operations of nature, or her more subtile and hidden works. In this way Sir Isaac Newton proceeded in his discoveries.
— Colin Maclaurin
An Account of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophical Discoveries, in Four Books (1748), 19.
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- 14 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Maclaurin's death.
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) -- 
