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John Arbuthnot Quotes

1667–1735 Scotland

John Arbuthnot (or Dr Arbuthnot; 1667 – 1735) was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath, best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathos, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull.

Scotland
Academics
Mathematicians
Physicians
Satirists

Also known as: Arbuthnot, John, Dr John Arbuthnot

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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

To bliss unknown my lofty soul aspires,
My lot unequal to my vast desires.

I exhort all People, gentle and simple, men, women and children, to buy, to read, to extol, these labours of mine. Let them not fear to defend every article; for I will bear them harmless. I have arguments good store, and can easily confute, either logically, theologically, or metaphysically, all those who oppose me.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Arbuthnot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.