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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing…
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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 depends only…
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Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is…
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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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 really are.
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A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of…
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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 single mind…
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing…
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To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame,…
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Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
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Scientia potentia est, sed parva; quia scientia egregia rara est, nec proinde apparens nisi paucissimis, et in paucis rebus. Scientiae enim ea…
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...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est.
— Seneca the Younger
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there…
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Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a…
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It is lawful to be taught by an enemy. Fas est ab hoste doceri.
— Ovid
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Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
— Horace
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Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
— Livy
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It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem
— Ovid
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