"Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure."

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Source : 1727 Vegetable Staticks.

Stephen Hales

#Wise Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Way Quotes

“For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.”
“Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.”
“Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live.”

Source : JoAnn Ross (2007). “No Safe Place”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.”
“one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.”
“The text [The Skeptical Environmentalist] employs the strategy of those who, for example, argue ...that Jews weren't singled out by the Nazis for extermination.”
“Eyes that displace the neighbor diamond, and outface that sunshine by their own sweet grace.”
“If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay, then you're in deep trouble. Once you make a certain kind of peace with the past, then you should be completely oriented towards speculation about the future.”

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