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The indisputable Mathematicks, the only Science Heaven hath yet…
Quote byJoseph Glanvill · 1636–1680
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Scepsis Scientifica (1665), Ch. 19.
English (original)
The indisputable Mathematicks, the only Science Heaven hath yet vouchsaft Humanity, have but few Votaries among the slaves of the Stagirite.
— Joseph Glanvill
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The Understanding also hath its Idiosyncrasies, as well as other faculties.
The Sages of old live again in us; and in opinions there is a Metempsychosis.
For Mathematical Sciences, he that doubts their certainty, hath need of a dose of Hellebore.
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.
The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden.
Time as a River, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial; while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.