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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can ...more

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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and ...more

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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now ...more