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John Arbuthnot

(1667–1735) Mathematician

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John Arbuthnot was a mathematician, best known for The history of John Bull.

Quick Facts About John Arbuthnot

Born: April 29, 1667
Died: February 27, 1735
Profession: Mathematician
Notable works: The history of John Bull

About John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot FRS, often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club, and for inventing the figure of John Bull.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by John Arbuthnot

The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few…

Alas

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John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.

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All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events,…

Analysis

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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from…

Charm

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What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as…

Body

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Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

Dominion

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The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine…

Candle

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To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

Aspire

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Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break…

Almighty

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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind…

Charm

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King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are…

Arbitrary

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I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to…

Believe

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Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be…

Age

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The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the…

Charm

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The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into…

Britain

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Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Beauty

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Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Apologizing

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Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to…

Age

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O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

Divine

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Law is a bottomless pit.

Law

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The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst…

Airy

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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

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Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

Add

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Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

Education

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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

Harpies

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