“Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.”

— Stanisław Leszczyński

No. 43.
Maxims and Moral Sentences

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Stanisław Leszczyński 10

king of Poland 1677–1766

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality

Essay 3, Aphorism 16
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)

“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”

Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909) Italian criminologist

Source: The Man of Genius (1891), p. x.

“There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Nothing, absolutely nothing that can be tackled by the human digestive system is wasted in Naples.”

Norman Lewis book Naples '44

Naples '44

“Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one.”

John Herschel (1792–1871) English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer

A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy (1831)

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

Immanuel Kant book Critique of Pure Reason

B 730; Variant translation: All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Variant: All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Source: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)

“The theatre demanded of its members stamina, good digestion, the ability to adjust, and a strong sense of humor. There was no discomfort an actor didn’t learn to endure. To survive, we had to be horses and we were.”

Helen Hayes (1900–1993) actress

Source: On Reflection (1968), Ch. 3

“Life is nothing without a good sense of humor.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

“Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.”

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