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The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy:…
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There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been…
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The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to…
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For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the…
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It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel…
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Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been…
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If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,…
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By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world…
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The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy:…
— Robert Hooke
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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…
— Thomas Sprat
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If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare…
— David Hume
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No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness…
— William Law
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight…
— Alexander Pope
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One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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