Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret. Can be found in his Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton: A selection from the Portsmouth Collection in the University Library, Cambridge, 1978 edition īased on Servius' commentary on Virgil's Georgics (3:96): "turpis non est quia per naturam venit." Sir Isaac Newton's famous quote, defining foundation of all modern sciences. Nature is exceedingly simple and harmonious with itself ![]() Shortened form of " sicut natura nil facit per saltum ita nec lex" (just as nature does nothing by a leap, so neither does the law), referring to both nature and the legal system moving gradually.Ī famous aphorism of Carl Linnaeus stating that all organisms bear relationships on all sides, their forms changing gradually from one species to the next. Nature does not make a leap, thus neither does the law Derived by Arthur Schopenhauer from an earlier source. That is, the natural world is not sentimental or compassionate. The name of the zoo in the centre of Amsterdam short: "Artis".Ĭf. Pseudo-explanation for why a liquid will climb up a tube to fill a vacuum, often given before the discovery of atmospheric pressure. Refers to a situation where an unborn child is deemed to be entitled to certain inheritance rights. The unborn is deemed to have been born to the extent that his own inheritance is concerned Nasciturus pro iam nato habetur, quotiens de commodis eius agitur When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning ![]() Nascentes morimur finisque ab origine pendet Also commonly known by the letters of Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". You have sent a letter to me through the hand of a “friend” of yours, as you call him.Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giantsįirst recorded by John of Salisbury in the twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres. What does it matter how much a man has laid up in his safe, or in his warehouse, how large are his flocks and how fat his dividends, if he covets his neighbour’s property, and reckons, not his past gains, but his hopes of gains to come? Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. He says: “Contented poverty is an honourable estate.” Indeed, if it be contented, it is not poverty at all. ![]() The thought for to-day is one which I discovered in Epicurus a for I am wont to cross over even into the enemy’s camp,-not as a deserter, but as a scout. This is my own custom from the many things which I have read, I claim some one part for myself. Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day. So you should always read standard authors and when you crave a change, fall back upon those whom you read before. They are manifold and varied, they cloy but do not nourish. III.ġ Epistulas ad me perferendas tradidisti, ut scribis, amico tuo: deinde admones me, ne omnia cum eo ad te pertinentia communicem, quia non soleas ne ipse quidem id facere ita in 1 eadem epistula illum et Quid enim refert, quantum illi in arca, quantum in horreis iaceat, quantum pascat aut feneret, si alieno inminet, si non adquisita sed adquirenda computat? Quis sit divitiarum modus, quaeris? Primus habere quod necesse est, proximus quod sat est. Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est. Inquit, “res est laeta paupertas.” Illa vero non est paupertas, si laeta est. Hodiernum hoc est, quod apud Epicurum nanctus sum soleo enim et in aliena castra transire, nonĦ tamquam transfuga, sed tamquam explorator. ![]() Nec minus adversus ceteras pestes: et cum multa percurreris, unum excerpe, quod illo die concoquas.ĥ Hoc ipse quoque facio ex pluribus, quae legi, aliquid adprehendo. Aliquid cotidie adversus paupertatem, aliquid adversus mortem auxilii compara, Probatos itaque semper lege, et si quando ad alios deverti libuerit, ad priores redi. Varia sunt et diversa, inquinant, non alunt.
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