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It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.



The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.



Seek simplicity, and distrust it.



Ideas wonít keep; something must be done about them.



Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.



What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike



The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it



Every really new idea looks crazy at first.



Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.



Without adventure civilization is in full decay



Philosophy is the product of wonder.



Seek simplicity but distrust it.



Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language



Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.



The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.








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