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Richard Taverner
(c. 1505 - 14 Jul 1575)
English writer, clergyman and translator who published his translation of the Bible in 1539.
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Science Quotes by Richard Taverner (1 quote)
Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.
— Richard Taverner
From Proverbs or Adagies out of Erasmus (1539), 44, given with other English variants, in George Latimer Apperson and Martin H. Manser, The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (1993, 2006), 158. The dictionary also gives the original sentiment expressed by Horace: “Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret” in Epistles, i, 10, 24.
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) --
Carl Sagan
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