Stephen Hales quotes

“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.”
-- Stephen Hales

Source : 1727 Vegetable Staticks.

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“If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.”
-- Stephen Hales

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“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.”

“Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.”

“Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!”

“The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.”

Source : Adam Clarke (1820). “Clavis Biblica; or, a Compendium of Scriptural Knowledge; containing a general view of the contents of the Old and New Testaments ... originally drawn up for the instruction of Two Teerunanxies, or High Priests of Budhoo, from the Island of Ceylon”, p.48

“The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.”

“A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...”

Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 45), 1988.

“Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”