A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleAs astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleMathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleThey 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