It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. - John Wilkins
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
- John Wilkins
'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things. - John Wilkins
'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to ve… - John Wilkins
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to ve…
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims a… - John Wilkins
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims a…
It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away. - John Wilkins
It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.
Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest. - John Wilkins
Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need. - John Wilkins
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall con… - John Wilkins
Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such a motion unto it as shall con…
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives. - John Wilkins
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
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