[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow …

- Marin Mersenne

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the…

- Marin Mersenne

Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time on the pr…

- Marin Mersenne

The sciences have sworn among themselves an inviolable partnership; it is almost impossible to separate them, for they would rather suffer than be to…

- Marin Mersenne