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Results of search for Author: Denis Diderot - Page 1 of 1
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
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Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
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Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
All children are essentially criminal.
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Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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