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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in…
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less…
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Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler,…
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The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him…
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the…
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'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at…
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De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at…
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Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable to recover…
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Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism…
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Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier, Kepler,…
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God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His…
— Lauren F. Winner
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The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin…
— Lee Strobel
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There is no permanent status quo in nature; all is the process of adjustment and readjustment, or else eventual failure. But man…
— Hermann Joseph Muller
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Beware the ides of March.
— William Shakespeare
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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
— William Shakespeare
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To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the…
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If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and…
— David Mitchell
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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