Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrowwas an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for the discovery of the fundamental theorem of calculus. His work centered on the properties of the tangent; Barrow was the first to calculate the tangents of the kappa curve. Isaac Newton was a student of Barrow's, and Newton went on to develop calculus in a modern form. The lunar crater Barrow is named after...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMathematician
matter facetious obscene
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
believe men rewards
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
instruments contempt exposing
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
book reading thinking
He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.
sweet ears praise
Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
appreciation excellence opinion
We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
sin judgment provocative
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
adversity men peculiar
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.
hands design world
Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?
prejudice boisterous zeal
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal.
may goodness be-good
We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.
men world favors
In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.
retreat sin ifs
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
wickedness slander complication
Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.