Atheism Is So Senseless And Odious To

The Changing Of Bodies Into Light, And Light Into Bodies, Is Very Conformable To The Course Of Nature, Which Seems Delighted With Transmutations.

The Best And Safest Way Of Philosophising Seems To Be, First To Enquire Diligently Into The Properties Of Things, And To Establish Those Properties By Experiences [experiments] And Then To Proceed Slowly To Hypotheses For The Explanation Of Them. For Hypotheses Should Be Employed Only In Explaining The Properties Of Things, But Not Assumed In Determining Them; Unless So Far As They May Furnish Experiments.

God Who Gave Animals Self Motion Beyond Our Understanding Is Without Doubt Able To Implant Other Principles Of Motion In Bodies [which] We May Understand As Little. Some Would Readily Grant This May Be A Spiritual One; Yet A Mechanical One Might Be Showne, Did Not I Think It Better To Pass It By.

To Explain All Nature Is Too Difficult A Task For Any One Man Or Even For Any One Age

Through Algebra You Easily Arrive At Equations, But Always To Pass Therefrom To The Elegant Constructions And Demonstrations Which Usually Result By Means Of The Method Of Porisms Is Not So Easy, Nor Is One's Ingenuity And Power Of Invention So Greatly Exercised And Refined In This Analysis.