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Richard Whately
(1 Feb 1787 - 8 Oct 1863)
English logician, theologian and author who was Anglican archbishop of Dublin. As a social reformer, he was concerned with major improvements in agriculture. His writings on Elements of Logic and Elements of Rhetoric were used as textbooks for a long time.
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Science Quotes by Richard Whately (4 quotes)
As an exercise of the reasoning faculty, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone, and does not encumber the student with an exercise of judgment: and it is well to begin with learning one thing at a time, and to defer a combination of mental exercises to a later period.
— Richard Whately
In Annotations to Bacon’s Essays (1873), Essay 1, 493.
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
— Richard Whately
From Annotation to Essay 50, 'Of Studies', in Bacon’s Essays: With Annotations (1856), 446.
The first business of a teacher … should be to excite … curiosity. … This process saves a student from being (as many are) intellectually damaged by having a very good memory.
— Richard Whately
From Annotation to Essay 50, 'Of Studies', in Bacon’s Essays: With Annotations (1856), 446.
To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.
— Richard Whately
From Annotation to Essay 50, 'Of Studies', in Bacon’s Essays: With Annotations (1856), 446.
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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