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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort,
(5 Jun 1656 - 28 Dec 1708)
French botanist and physician.
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Science Quotes by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, (1 quote)
We have several stones whose generation is incomprehensible unless it is supposed that they come from some kind of seed, if I may be permitted to use this term; that is to say, from a germ in which the organic particles of these stones are enclosed ‘en petit’, just as those of the largest plants are enclosed in the germs of their grains.
— Joseph Pitton de Tournefort,
In Histoire de l' Académie Royale des Sciences Annee: Avec les Memoires de Mathematique et de Physique (1702), 230.
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- 5 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Tournefort's birth.
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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