There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.
The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
If nobody makes you do it, it counts as fun.
The law is the public conscience.
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.