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• Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing…
• As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
• They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only…
• Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is…
• Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
• If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
• It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
• I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
• It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
• A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of…
• A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind…
• To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing…

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