Preston

“Every communication is rhetorical because it uses some technique to affect the beliefs, actions, or emotions of an audience.”
― George A. Kennedy, Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times

“As the philosopher of science Nancy Cartwright has put it, what modern science seems to show is not that we live in a world governed by a single systematic set of natural laws that apply at all times and in all places, but rather that we live in a ‘dappled world’ in which pockets of order emerge, or can be made to emerge, using a patchwork of different scientific theories (from physics, to biology, to economics), none of which is applicable across all domains.”
― Thomas Dixon, Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction

“So if any man think philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied.  And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage. ”
― Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

“[20] nam est certe aliquid consummata eloquentia, neque ad earn pervenire natura humani ingenii prohibet. quod si non contingat, altius tamen ibunt, qui ad summa nitentur, quam qui, praesumpta desperatione quo velint evadendi, protinus circa ima substiterint. [20] Perfect eloquence is assuredly a reality, which is not beyond the reach of human intellect. Even if we fail to reach it, those whose aspirations are highest, will attain to greater heights than those who abandon themselves to premature despair of ever reaching the goal and halt at the very foot of the ascent.”
― Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Complete Works of Quintilian