Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrowwas an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work centered on the properties of the tangent; Barrow was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve. Isaac Newton was a student of Barrow's, and Newton went on to develop calculus in a modern form. The lunar crater Barrow is named after...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMathematician
retreat sin ifs
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
adversity men peculiar
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.
mean men hatred
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.
anecdotes kind nonsense
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes
design may sin
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
matter facetious obscene
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
instruments contempt exposing
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
book reading thinking
He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
appreciation excellence opinion
We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
sin judgment provocative
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
choices safe
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
science accomplished mathematician
An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.
simplicity crafts shallowness
Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
disappointment character practice
It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals, to act uprightly, uniformly, and consistently. The practice of piety frees a man from interior distraction and from irresolution in his mind, from duplicity or inconstancy in his character, and from confusion in his proceedings, and consequently securing for others freedom from deception and disappointment in their transactions with him.