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Isaac Barrow was an English mathematician who made significant contributions to the fields of geometry and calculus. He is known for his work on the tangent line and for being the first to use the term 'infinitesimal'. Barrow was a professor at Cambridge University and is considered one of the founders of the Cambridge Mathematical School.

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Famous Isaac Barrow Quotes

“If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.”

Ifs Men Should May Mean Desire Honest Dangerous Hatred Every Man Endeavor Temper Provoking Good Will Enmity Desire To Live

Book:The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author

“We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.”

Ifs May Please Goodness Be Good

Book:Twenty two sermons on various subjects: selected from the works of the Rev. Isaac Barrow, ...

Source: Twenty two sermons on various subjects: selected from the works of the Rev. Isaac Barrow, ...

“As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.”

Men May Break He Man Sticks Vices Dry Posture Incorrigible

Book:Works

Source: Works

“He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.”

Thinking Want May Book Reading Study Fortune Weather Companion Cheerful Close Friends Counselor Comforter

Author:Isaac Barrow

“Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.”

May Persons Courses Sin Design Seasons Dues Commit Temper Discretion Charitable

Book:The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow

Source: The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow