"His wit, his Learning, his Knowledge of Mankind, his exquisite Taste in all that is Polite, the Fire of his Imaginati…"

"[T]he intellectual changes of Louis XIV's reign touch the history of science—especially as they represent the extensi…"

"Fontenelle provides an example of the transfer of the scientific spirit, and the application of methodical doubt, in.…"

"It is more reasonable to remove error from truth, than to venerate error because it is mix'd with truth."

"We can never add more truth to what is true already, nor make that true which is false."

"Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world i…"

"The calculus is to mathematics no more than what experiment is to physics, and all the truths produced solely by the …"

"The geometrical spirit is not so tied to geometry that it cannot be detached from it and transported to other branche…"

"At the time the book of Marquis de l'Hôpital had appeared, and almost all mathematicians began to turn to the new geo…"

"Men are not willing to suffer the decision of things to be too easie, and therefore they mingle their own prejudices …"