The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. John Arbuthnot More Quotes by John Arbuthnot More Quotes From John Arbuthnot Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition. John Arbuthnot math science knowledge He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest. John Arbuthnot agriculture hungry harvest Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye. John Arbuthnot understanding eye truth All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. John Arbuthnot political party lying The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together. John Arbuthnot care cities together Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!) John Arbuthnot apologizing secret happy-life Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined. John Arbuthnot true-religion advantage enemy O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way. John Arbuthnot rays truth way Unjust force can never give any just dominion. John Arbuthnot unjust dominion giving When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood. John Arbuthnot simplicity greek honor Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing. John Arbuthnot pits law science Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices. John Arbuthnot vices may men What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body. John Arbuthnot purpose mind exercise The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable. John Arbuthnot passion men science The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you. John Arbuthnot dark success knowledge All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations. John Arbuthnot analysis politics world Biography is one of the new terrors of death. John Arbuthnot terror biographies science To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires. John Arbuthnot bliss soul desire King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary. John Arbuthnot arbitrary kings law It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such a determin'd side, and therefore I call that Chance, which is nothing, but want of Art. John Arbuthnot science art fall
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