Abomination Quotes (3 quotes)
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
Lamenting mathematics whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge, 1818.
Lamenting mathematics whilst an undergraduate at Cambridge, 1818.
Quoted in John Gascoigne, Cambridge in the Age of Enlightenment (1989), 272.
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
— Bible
Jeremiah 2:7, King James Bible.
The history of the world is replete with illustrations to the effect that the greater the ignorance the greater the abomination of unconforming opinion, and the greater the knowledge the greater the charity for dissenting opinions.
From address (1 Oct 1884), at inauguration of the Corcoran School of Science and Arts, Columbian University, Washington, D.C. Published in 'The Larger Import of Scientific Education', Popular Science Monthly (Feb 1885), 26, 456.
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) -- 
