Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night.
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Alexander Pope

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Scientific progress

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton

Medium

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1730 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton. c. 1730.

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Pope, Alexander. "Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Of all the animals, with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis'd more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

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Era
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Original Citation

Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 3, pt. 2, sect. 2.

Current Citation

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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Voltaire

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Voltaire
Source
Candide
Medium
Novel
Genre
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Language
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Time
1759 1750s 18th century
Era
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Original Citation

Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 12.