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Science Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any…
- The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
- If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.
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