Treatise Quotes

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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would… — Jonathan Swift
For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a… — George Bernard Shaw
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making… — Douglas Houghton Campbell
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists… — James Clerk Maxwell
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. — John Henry Newman
The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the… — Stephen Leacock
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and… — Kit Williams
My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had presented his results… — Wilhelm Ostwald
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not… — Samuel Johnson
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book… — Herrick Johnson
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth.… — Nassau William Senior
One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the… — James Clerk Maxwell
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. — David Hume
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past… — Gary Becker
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,… — George Bernard Shaw
A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and… — Sylvia Earle

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