Doubt Is The Origin Of Wisdom

I Should Consider That I Know Nothing About Physics If I Were Able To Explain Only How Things Might Be, And Were Unable To Demonstrate That They Could Not Be Otherwise.

Even The Mind Depends So Much On Temperament And The Disposition Of One's Bodily Organs That, If It Is Possible To Find A Way To Make People Generally More Wise And More Skilful Than They Have Been In The Past, I Believe That We Should Look For It In Medicine. It Is True That Medicine As It Is Currently Practiced Contains Little Of Much Use.

Perfect Numbers Like Perfect Men Are Very Rare.

The Chief Cause Of Human Errors Is To Be Found In The Prejudices Picked Up In Childhood.

In Philosophy, When We Make Use Of False Principles, We Depart The Farther From The Knowledge Of Truth And Wisdom Exactly In Proportion To The Care With Which We Cultivate Them, And Apply Ourselves To The Deduction Of Diverse Consequences From Them, Thinking That We Are Philosophizing Well, While We Are Only Departing The Farther From The Truth; From Which It Must Be Inferred That They Who Have Learned The Least Of All That Has Been Hitherto Distinguished By The Name Of Philosophy Are The Most Fitted For The Apprehension Of Truth.