Jean Rey Quotes

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The condensed air becomes attached to [the metallic calx], and adheres little by little to the smallest of its particles: thus its weight increases from the beginning to the end: but when all is saturated, it can take up no more.

Jean Rey

To commit that to chance and adventure would be offensive to the incomparable wisdom of the Author of Nature, who has made nothing therein without weight, number, and measure, and established in it such order that nothing happens fortuitously and without cause.

Jean Rey

Nature in her inscrutable wisdom has... set limits which she never oversteps.

Jean Rey

I retrace my steps, and affirm that the examination of weights which is made by the balance differs greatly from that which is made by the reason. The latter is only employed by the judicious: the former can be practiced by the veriest clown.

Jean Rey

In the bounds of nature, a vacuum, which is nothing, can find no place. There is no power in nature which from nothing could have made the universe, and none which could reduce the universe to nothing: that requires the same virtue.

Jean Rey