Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

— Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Men are not willing to suffer the decision of things to be too easie, and therefore they mingle their own prejudices with truths, and so create greater perplexities than are Naturally found therein; and those scruples, which our selves frame, give us the most pain to untangle.

— Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

It is more reasonable to remove error from truth, than to venerate error because it is mix'd with truth.

— Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

We can never add more truth to what is true already, nor make that true which is false.

— Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Now, the Priests who belonged to the Temples, scorn'd to use the same Customs in common with these Gypsies; for they thought themselves to be a nobler and graver sort of Fortune-tellers; which makes a mighty difference, I'll assure you, in this great affair.

— Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle