Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Science, House

• The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Science, Medicine, Bitterness

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.408, Delphi Classics

• It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Science, Men, Proud

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.518

• Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Science, Reason, Form

• Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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