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Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-l...more

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

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The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, whi...more

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Knowledge itself is power

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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

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I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure o...more

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Knowledge is power.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

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But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, t...more