Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue,
But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

Alexander Pope in Essay on Man
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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It is with our judgments as with our watches; no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

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