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- Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment… — Francis Bacon
- It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once,… — Colin Maclaurin
- The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and… — Benjamin Franklin
- A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross… — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
- [1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick,… — Isaac Newton
- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
- I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It… — Henry David Thoreau