Thomas Hobbes

1588–1679 · English philosopher

Topics: learning, complexity, mathematics

• Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time:

  — Thomas Hobbes

• Of all Discourse, governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End, either by attaining, or by giving over.

  — Thomas Hobbes

• Time, and Industry, produce everyday new knowledge.

  — Thomas Hobbes

• Geometry, which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on man.

  — Thomas Hobbes

• It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

  — Thomas Hobbes