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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
(10 May 1727 - 18 Mar 1781)
French economist who attempted to bring financial reform to France, but was obstructed by the wealthy. Five of his six proposals affecting dues, offices and suppression of the guilds of Paris brought little or no opposition, but the sixth which would replace the forced labor on the roads by peasants with a tax on landowners to pay for the public roads caused his downfall.
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Science Quotes by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (2 quotes)
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis.
He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
Admiring Benjamin Franklin in a letter to Samuel P. du Pont, c. 1779.
He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
Admiring Benjamin Franklin in a letter to Samuel P. du Pont, c. 1779.
— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
In I. Bernard Cohen, Benjamin Franklin's Experiments (1941), xxvii.
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
In Fielding Hudson Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine (1929), 33.
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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