Mersenne Quotes (1 quote)
~~[Misquote]~~ There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
In epigraph, without citation, in George F. Simmons Calculus Gems, (1992), 93. Webmaster has searched and as yet cannot find a primary source where Hobbes wrote the subject quote with this wording. (Can you help?) However, it can be found in a narrative, not as a quote, in Stanley Victor Keeling, Descartes (1934), 6. Keeling describes, without quotation marks, the closest friend Mersenne, that delightful and obliging figure in whom, according to Hobbes, there was more than in all the universities together.
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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