Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Knowledge, Science, Our World

  "Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology". Book by Mark Brake, 2012.

• As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Daughter, Science, Astronomy

• They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Life, Science, Watches

• Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Running, Science, Self

• Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Nature, Science, Natural

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