“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
Quotes by John Arbuthnot
“Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice , Credulity , and Superstition .”
“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 when a Mathematical Reasoning can be had it's as great a 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 ArbuthnotJohn Arbuthnot was a Scottish physician, satirist, and polymath who made significant contributions to literature and mathematics in early 18th-century London. He was a prominent member of the Scribler...