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The least of Reptiles I have hitherto met with, is a Mite.
Robert Hooke
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Arithmetic and geometry, those wings on which the astronomer soars as high as heaven.
Robert Boyle
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Men are deplorably ignorant with respect to natural things, an modern philosophers, as though dreaming in the darkness, must be aroused and taught the uses of things, the dealing with things; they must be made to quit the sort of learning that comes only from books, and that rests only on vain arguments from probability and upon conjecture.
William Gilbert
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True and native beauty consists in the just composure and symmetry of the parts of the body.
John Bulwer
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