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Classical antiquity13 quotes
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle · 350 BCWhen a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. — Pliny the Elder · 77The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another. — Pliny the Elder · 77Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time. — Aristotle · 350 BCThe least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. — Aristotle · 350 BCThe only certainty is that nothing is certain. — Pliny the Elder · 77 BCAll 13 quotes →Age of Enlightenment3 quotes
Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts. — Isaac Newton · 1687This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler. — Isaac Newton · 1713Errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. — Isaac Newton · 1687The Renaissance2 quotes
Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if we only face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open." — Nicolaus Copernicus · 1543In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. — William Gilbert · 1600