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Thomas Traherne
(c. 1637 - 27 Sep 1674)
English poet and clergyman who was ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1660. His first publication, the only one during his lifetime was Roman Forgeries (1673). Other prose works were published posthumously, even centuries after his death.
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Science Quotes by Thomas Traherne (1 quote)
He that knows the secrets of nature with Albertus Magnus, or the motions of the heavens with Galileo, or the cosmography of the moon with Hevelius, or the body of man with Galen, or the nature of diseases with Hippocrates, or the harmonies in melody with Orpheus, or of poesy with Homer, or of grammar with Lilly, or of whatever else with the greatest artist; he is nothing if he knows them merely for talk or idle speculation, or transient and external use. But he that knows them for value, and knows them his own, shall profit infinitely.
— Thomas Traherne
In Bertram Doben (ed.), Centuries of Meditations (1908), The Third Century, No. 41, 189-190.
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) -- 
