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John George Zimmerman
(8 Dec 1728 - 7 Oct 1795)
Swiss physician and writer who was appointed (1708) chief physician to the king of England in Hanover. His works included A Treatise on Solitude, An Essay on National Pride and A Treatise on the Experience of Medicine.
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Science Quotes by John George Zimmerman (2 quotes)
An experiment differs from an observation in this, that knowledge gained through observation seems to appear of itself, while that which an experiment brings us is the fruit of an effort that we make, with the object of knowing whether something exists or does not exist.
— John George Zimmerman
Traité sur l'expérience en médecine (1774), Vol. 1, 45. In Claude Bernard, Henry C. Greene, L. J. Henderson, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1957), 6.
Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing saving their own ignorance.
— John George Zimmerman
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:11.
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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