"The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as……" — John Arbuthnot
"The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable."
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John Arbuthnot
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15 Quotes by John Arbuthnot
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
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Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery,…
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Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
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He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
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