Johann Heinrich Lambert

“It appears to be a universal condition of our science, of which it is not an easy matter to assign the cause, that the most simple and elementary parts of it are those which are the last to be brought to perfection.”

“The less one knows, the more cocksure one is.”

“A mere collector of certainties is no philosopher.”

“The most important rule in the art of discovering is to be on guard against one's own opinions.”

“We should try to introduce a light into the darkness, which has so long enveloped this subject.”

“All our knowledge is either of things or of the signs of things.”

“A science may be defined as a collection of truths of a certain kind, arranged in a methodical order.”