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Age of Enlightenment4 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 · 1687Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith · 1776Errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. — Isaac Newton · 1687The great advantage of the mathematical sciences above the moral consists in this, that the ideas of the former, being sensible, are always clear and determinate. — David Hume · 1748Classical antiquity1 quote
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. — Hippocrates · 370 BC