Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful. – Denis Diderot
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. – Denis Diderot
The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice. – Denis Diderot
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination. – Denis Diderot