The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleNature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleA work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle