There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. The laws of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.