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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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The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in ri...more

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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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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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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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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to pr...more

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Knowledge is power.

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If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in math...more

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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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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