Robert Recorde Quotes

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I see in the heaven marvelous motions; and in the reste of the worlde straunge transmutations, and therfore desire muche to know what the worlde is, and what are the principal partes of it, and also how all these strange sightes doo come.

Robert Recorde
You are to farre deceived, and therefore I interrupt your woordes, for all things are to be governed by reason.

Robert Recorde
Beside the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except it be borrowed from them.

Robert Recorde
The time seemeth longe (bee it never so shorte indeed) to hym that desirously looketh for any thing: for as the obtaining of it bringeth great pleasure, namelye the thinge itselfe being profitable, so the wante thereof causeth displeasure and cotinuall grief tyll the desire be eyther fully satisfied, other partly (at the least) accomplished.

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Who so ever will travail in the sciences with profit, must lean rather to reason, than to authority, else he may be deceived.

Robert Recorde
The greatest point of all ignorance, not to know the goossenes of ignorance, and not to understand the benefit of knowledge.

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Master. - Wherefore in all great works are clerks so much desired? Wherefore are auditors so richly fed? What causeth geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, Which else would far excel man's mind.

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If reasons reache transcende the skye, Why shoulde it then to earthe be bounde? The witte is wronged and leadde awrye, If mynde be maried to the grounde.

Robert Recorde