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Edmund Burke
(12 Jan 1729 - 9 Jul 1797)
Irish-English statesman, orator and politician.
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Science Quotes by Edmund Burke (3)
Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
— Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790 ), 117.
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Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.
— Edmund Burke
In Tyron Edwards. A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), 506.
Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
— Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790, 2005), 54.
See also: | Science And Society (9)
