John Arbuthnot Quotes

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• Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

  John Arbuthnot

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  John Arbuthnot (1701). “An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning,: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City to His Friend in Oxford..”, p.7

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• All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

  John Arbuthnot

  Lying, Party, Political

  "Life of Emerson" by Richard Garnett, ch. 7, 1988.

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• Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

  John Arbuthnot

  Truth, Eye, Understanding

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

  John Arbuthnot

  Giving, Unjust, Dominion

  John Arbuthnot (1751). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”

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• Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

  John Arbuthnot

  Science, Law, Pits

  John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

  John Arbuthnot

  Agriculture, Hungry, Harvest

  John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

  John Arbuthnot

  Happy Life, Secret, Apologizing

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• All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.

  John Arbuthnot

  Analysis, World, Politics

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• When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.

  John Arbuthnot

  Simplicity, Greek, Honor

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

  John Arbuthnot

  Science, Biographies, Terror

  Letter to Jonathan Swift, 13 Jan. 1733

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• Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

  John Arbuthnot

  Enemy, Advantage, True Religion

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

  John Arbuthnot

  Men, Vices, May

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

  John Arbuthnot

  Cities, Together, Care

  An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies Ch. 9, No. 20

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• To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

  John Arbuthnot

  Soul, Desire, Bliss

  John Arbuthnot (1751). “A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”, p.25

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• It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

  John Arbuthnot

  Sports, Men, Pieces

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable.

  John Arbuthnot

  Passion, Science, Men

  Martin Strong, John Arbuthnot (1745). “An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City, to His Friend at Oxford”, p.8

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• The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.

  John Arbuthnot

  Success, Knowledge, Dark

  Of the Laws of Chance Preface

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• The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

  John Arbuthnot

  God, Faith, Hope

  "An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City, to His Friend at Oxford".

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• Law is a bottomless pit.

  John Arbuthnot

  Law, Pits, Lawyer

  'The History of John Bull' (1712) ch. 24

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• O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

  John Arbuthnot

  Truth, Rays, Way

  John Arbuthnot (1751). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”

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• What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

  John Arbuthnot

  Exercise, Mind, Purpose

  John Arbuthnot (1701). “An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning,: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City to His Friend in Oxford..”, p.9

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• It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such a determin'd side, and therefore I call that Chance, which is nothing, but want of Art.

  John Arbuthnot

  Art, Fall, Science

  "The Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot".

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• King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are kingdoms in the world, and he can have no power but what is given him by law; yea, even the supreme or legislative power is bound by the rules of equity, to govern by laws enacted, and published in due form; for what is not legal is arbitrary.

  John Arbuthnot

  Kings, Law, Arbitrary

  John Arbuthnot (1751). “A Supplement to the Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot”, p.9

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• Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

  John Arbuthnot

  Wise, Prayer, Perfect Days

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• John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.

  John Arbuthnot

  Science, Biographies, Pairs

  John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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