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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall…
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