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If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls Are their males' subjects and at their controls. Man, more divine, the master of all these, Lord of the wide world and wild wat'ry seas, Indu'd with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females, and their lords; Then let your will attend on their accords.

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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

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Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

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ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

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The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

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PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.

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Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

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Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

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Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

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