"Nature is never so admired as when she…" — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
"Nature is never so admired as when she is understood."
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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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31 Quotes by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a…
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and…
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Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause.…
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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they…
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A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the…
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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one…
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak…
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The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may…
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