I See I Have Made My Self

The Best Way To Understanding Is A Few Good Examples.

The Latest Authors, Like The Most Ancient, Strove To Subordinate The Phenomena Of Nature To The Laws Of Mathematics.

I Have Not Been Able To Discover The Cause Of Those Properties Of Gravity From Phenomena, And I Frame No Hypotheses; For Whatever Is Not Deduced From The Phenomena Is To Be Called A Hypothesis, And Hypotheses, Whether Metaphysical Or Physical, Whether Of Occult Qualities Or Mechanical, Have No Place In Experimental Philosophy.

How Came The Bodies Of Animals To Be Contrived With So Much Art, And For What Ends Were Their Several Parts? Was The Eye Contrived Without Skill In Opticks, And The Ear Without Knowledge Of Sounds?...and These Things Being Rightly Dispatch’d, Does It Not Appear From Phænomena That There Is A Being Incorporeal, Living, Intelligent...?

That One Body May Act Upon Another At A Distance Through A Vacuum, Without The Mediation Of Any Thing Else, By And Through Which Their Action And Force May Be Conveyed From One To Another, Is To Me So Great An Absurdity, That I Believe No Man, Who Has In Philosophical Matters A Compentent Faculty Of Thinking, Can Ever Fall Into It.