Voltaire Quotes About Science
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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.
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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
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The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
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A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.
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