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Quotes from The System of the World — Johann Heinrich Lambert

1728–1777 Switzerland

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We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of astronomy.

The System of the World (1800)

We suppose the existence of a wise and beneficent Being who presided over the formation of the World, and who is pleased to display his infinite perfections on this illustrious theatre.

The System of the World (1800)

But, are the faculties of our nature equal to this? and what are the principles which ought to guide us in these researches?

The System of the World (1800)

This is all to which weak and limited beings can pretend, beings who occupy a point, and last but a moment in this mighty edifice built for eternity.

The System of the World (1800)

We will found our hypothesis in the general laws of motion, whose effects are every where the same, and whose influence extends to the utmost limits of matter.

The System of the World (1800)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johann Heinrich Lambert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.