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Science Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have…
- And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible…
- Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
- Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are…
- And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations…
- Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The…
- That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
- The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their…
- Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
- The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence,…
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