"Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences,……" — Unknown Author

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This quote is filed under Abstruse Quotes, one of 17 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to… — David Hume
• Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit… — Galileo Galilei
• If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim… — Mark Twain
• Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this,… — Karen Armstrong
• The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the… — Samuel Johnson
• Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse… — Benjamin Graham
• Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize… — Georges Lemaitre
• I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not… — Michel de Montaigne
• For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French… — James Fenton
• It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever… — Galileo Galilei
• There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in… — Joseph Addison

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