To what purpose is it to determine the forms of glasses geometrically?
Sir Isaac[257] owns his book could have been demonstrated on the supposition of indivisibles.
M.
Innumerable vessels of matter. V. Cheyne.
I'll not admire the mathematicians. 'Tis wt any one of [pg 089] common sense might attain to by repeated acts. I prove it by experience. I am but one of human sense, and I &c.
Mathematicians have some of them good parts—the more is the pity. Had they not been mathematicians they had been good for nothing. They were such fools they knew not how to employ their parts.
The mathematicians could not so much as tell wherein truth & certainty consisted, till Locke told 'em[258]. I see the best of 'em talk of light and colours as if wthout the mind.
By thing I either mean ideas or that wch has ideas[259].
Nullum præclarum ingenium unquam fuit magnus mathematicus. Scaliger[260].
A great genius cannot stoop to such trifles & minutenesses as they consider.