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- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume
- For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on… — James Fenton
- Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her… — Galileo Galilei
- Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson
- Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than… — Karen Armstrong
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of… — Samuel Johnson