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Science Quotes by English Proverb (8 quotes)
A lucky physician is better than a learned one.
— English Proverb
In Dwight Edwards Marvin, The Antiquity of Proverbs (1922), 238.
A young doctor makes a humpy churchyard.
— English Proverb
In H. Pullar-Strecker, Proverbs for Pleasure (1954), 193.
Bread is the staff of life.
— English Proverb
Cited as“The proverb was first recorded in 1638 in Penkethman, Artachthos” in Martin H. Manser, The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs (2007), 33.
God healeth and the physician hath the thanks.
— English Proverb
In John Ray, A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1678, 1818), 7.
It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
— English Proverb
In use at least as early as 1839, for example in 'Craven' (ed.), The Sporting Review (Aug 1839), 132. Webmaster found subsequent examples being applied metaphorically to criticism of speech, politics or social conduct, rather than any literal interpretation concerning pollution.
Physician's faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.
— English Proverb
In Adam Wooléver (ed.), Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs (1878), 507.
The best surgeon is one that hath been hacked himself.
— English Proverb
In Dwight Edwards Marvin, The Antiquity of Proverbs (1922), 238.
Where there are reeds, there is water.
— English Proverb
In John Ray and Henry George Bohn (ed.), A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs (1860), 564.
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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