There Is Nothing So Far Removed From

Wonder Is The First Of All The Passions.

Few Look For Truth; Many Prowl About For A Reputation Of Profundity By Arrogantly Challenging Whichever Arguments Are The Best.

I Hope That Posterity Will Judge Me Kindly, Not Only As To The Things Which I Have Explained, But Also To Those Which I Have Intentionally Omitted So As To Leave To Others The Pleasure Of Discovery.

Everything Is Self-evident.

[about Pierre De Fermat] It Cannot Be Denied That He Has Had Many Exceptional Ideas, And That He Is A Highly Intelligent Man. For My Part, However, I Have Always Been Taught To Take A Broad Overview Of Things, In Order To Be Able To Deduce From Them General Rules, Which Might Be Applicable Elsewhere.