Quote#Wisdom
The knowledge we have of the Mathematicks, hath no reason to elate…
Quote byJoseph Glanvill · 1636–1680
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1662), Ch. 21.
English (original)
The knowledge we have of the Mathematicks, hath no reason to elate us; since by them we know but numbers, and figures, creatures of our own, and are yet ignorant of our Maker's.
— Joseph Glanvill
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