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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (French: [fɔ̃tənɛl]; 11 February 1657 – 9 January 1757), also called Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, was a French author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment.

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A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

Criticism, Hands, Math, Politics, Things, Work

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Care, Full, Funny, Hands, Truth

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Ambition, Astronomy, Destructive, Extent, Nature, Passion

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

Happiness, Happy, Heart, Stomach

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

Body, Die, Penetrate, Secret, Usual, Vain

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

Apart, Certain, Difficulty, Exist, Last Words

I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

Conversation, Hate, Spoils, War

There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.

Close, Neighbor, Ridicule, Ridiculous, Touch

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Contains, Regret, Silence, World

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Elephants, Feet, Firsts, Foot, Solidly, True

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

Future, Gained, Ignoring, Know How, Knows

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

Astronomy, Daughter, Idleness, Property, Science

A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.

Ages, Inspirational, Mind, Minds, Motivation

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.

Art, Flying, Future, Invented, Moon

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Admired, Natural, Nature, Science, Understood

It is the passions that do and undo everything.

Everything, Passion, Passions, Undo

A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.

Men, Sweeter, Voice, World

Ah! si l'on o" tait les chime' res aux hommes, quel plaisir leur resterait? Oh! If man were robbed of his fantasies, what pleasure would be left him?

Fantasy, Leur, Men, Pleasure, Tait, Would Be

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

Earth, Entry, Fair, Philosopher, Sky

Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

Greatest, Matter, Running, Science, Self, Slow

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