John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club, and for inventing the figure of John Bull...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth29 April 1667
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agriculture hungry harvest
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
truth eye understanding
Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
simplicity greek honor
When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.
success knowledge dark
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.
biographies terror
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
truth way rays
O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.