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Terence
(c. 185 B.C. - 159 B.C.)
Roman playwright.
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Science Quotes by Terence (3 quotes)
Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es.
I know it; you are constrained by your inclination.
I know it; you are constrained by your inclination.
— Terence
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 383.
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
— Terence
In Phormio, v.1, 31, as quoted and cited in (1908), 109.
True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come.
— Terence
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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) -- 
