Isaac Barrow Mathematician Quotations

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

Men do truly more render themselves despicable than others when, without just ground, or reasonable occasion, they do attack others in this way.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.