Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Science
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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.
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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.
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No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
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Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
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Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
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Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
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