I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
Calculus, optimism
From his work 'Nova Methodus Discendae Docendaeque Jurisprudentiae' (A New Method for Learning and Teaching Jurisprudence).
1667
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