A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of 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...
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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...
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Knowledge is power.
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
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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...
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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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A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
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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...
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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...
