"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
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"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
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"Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
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"All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free."
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"We must see whether the same clock with weights will go faster at the top of a mountain or at the bottom of a mine; it is probable, if the pull of the weights decreases on the mountain and increases in the mine, that the earth has real attraction."
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"Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight."
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"Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule."
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"There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season."
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"Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously."
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"Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented."
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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
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"Riches are for spending."
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"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."
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"Money is like muck, not good unless spread."
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"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."
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"For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others."
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"All colours will agree in the dark."
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