"A mere nothing, a tiny fibre, something that could never be found by the most delicate anatomy, would have made of Er…"

"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 …"

"But why then did the Ancient Priestesses always answer in Verse? ...To this Plutarch replies... That even the Ancient…"

"Now, the Priests who belonged to the Temples, scorn'd to use the same Customs in common with these Gypsies; for they …"