"Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres."
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"We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God."
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"The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection."
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"All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass."
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"I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils"
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"Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything."
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"When taking a selfie, remember the most natural pose is still best"
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"It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters."
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"There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation."
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"Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones."
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"To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble."
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"People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing"
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"He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion."
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"The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image."
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"Vows begin when hope dies."
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"Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man."
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"When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings."
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"Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead."
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"If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit."
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"Fear arises sooner than anything else."
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