Roger Cotes quotes
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“Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.”
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“But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.”
-- Roger Cotes
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“Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.”
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“Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.”
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Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.
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“The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap”
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“You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”
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Source : Source: www.justjared.com
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