It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other. — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things. — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need. — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
