A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.
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Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its... ...
Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.
Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom
Nature always has something amazing in it.