But In My Opinion, All Things In

If I Go For The Alternative Which Is False, Then Obviously I Shall Be In Error; If I Take The Other Side, Then It Is By... Chance That I Arrive At The Truth, And I Shall Still Be At Fault.... In This Incorrect Use Of Free Will May Be Found The Privation Which Constitutes The Essence Of Error.

There Is Nothing So Far Removed From Us As To Be Beyond Our Reach, Or So Hidden That We Cannot Discover It.

Sensations Are Nothing But Confused Modes Of Thinking.

Some Years Ago I Was Struck By The Large Number Of Falsehoods That I Had Accepted As True In My Childhood, And By The Highly Doubtful Nature Of The Whole Edifice That I Had Subsequently Based On Them. I Realized That It Was Necessary, Once In The Course Of My Life, To Demolish Everything Completely And Start Again Right From The Foundations If I Wanted To Establish Anything At All In The Sciences That Was Stable And Likely To Last.

The Rainbow Is Such A Remarkable Phenomenon Of Nature, And Its Cause Has Been So Meticulously Sought After By Inquiring Minds Throughout The Ages, That I Could Not Choose A More Appropriate Subject For Demonstrating How, With The Method I Am Using, We Can Arrive At Knowledge Not Possessed At All By Those Whose Writings Are Available To Us.