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Laurence Sterne
(24 Nov 1713 - 18 Mar 1768)
Irish-English theologian and novelist whose most famous novel is The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (published in several volumes, beginning in 1759).
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Science Quotes by Laurence Sterne (4 quotes)
It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.
— Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman (1759-67), Penguin edition (1997), 121-122.
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
— Laurence Sterne
The Works of Laurence Sterne (1814), Vol. 6, 347.
Science may be learned by rote, but Wisdom not.
— Laurence Sterne
(1759). From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, collected in Collection of Ancient and Modern British Novels and Romances (1832), Vol. 38, 311.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but Wisdom not.
— Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman (1759-67), Penguin edition (1997), 324.
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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