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And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities?
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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March 12, 1685
Died:
January 14, 1753
(aged 67)
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