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Quotes from Scepsis Scientifica — Joseph Glanvill

1636–1680 England

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The Woman in us, still prosecutes a deceit, like that begun in the Garden.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

Time as a River, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial; while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

The Sages of old live again in us; and in opinions there is a Metempsychosis.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of Passions, that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to Verity.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

The Understanding also hath its Idiosyncrasies, as well as other faculties.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

The indisputable Mathematicks, the only Science Heaven hath yet vouchsaft Humanity, have but few Votaries among the slaves of the Stagirite.

Scepsis Scientifica (1665)

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