Sublime

The first and most striking feature is a stupidity that rises into a sort of ghastly innocence.

He has no longer the wisdom of the uneducated man, who says what he thinks. He has begun to have too much of the knowledge of the half-educated man, who says what he thinks he ought to think.

The part played by deduction in science is greater than Bacon supposed. Often, when a hypothesis has to be tested, there is a long deductive journey from the hypothesis to some consequence that can be tested by observation. Usually the deduction is mathematical, and in this respect Bacon underestimated the importance of mathematics in scientific

when there is a mixture of 'good' coins with high silver content and 'bad' coins that have been clipped or debased circulating, the public will hoard the valuable good ones and pass on the bad ones to others.

Pierre de Fermat,