"The laws of nature are the rules according……" — Thomas Reid
"The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house."
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15 Quotes by Thomas Reid
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It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the…
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must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.
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In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him…
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It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all…
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In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest…
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is…
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Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of…
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of…
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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the…
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