If Two Stones Were Placed... Near Each

If My False Figures Came Near To The Facts, This Happened Merely By Chance ... These Comments Are Not Worth Printing. Yet It Gives Me Pleasure To Remember How Many Detours I Had To Make, Along How Many Walls I Had To Grope In The Darkness Of My Ignorance Until I Found The Door Which Lets In The Light Of The Truth ... In Such Manner Did I Dream Of The Truth.

Wheresoever The Earth May Be Placed, Or Whithersoever It May Be Carried By Its Animal Faculty, Heavy Bodies Will Always Be Carried Towards It.

After The Birth Of Printing Books Became Widespread. Hence Everyone Throughout Europe Devoted Himself To The Study Of Literature... Every Year, Especially Since 1563, The Number Of Writings Published In Every Field Is Greater Than All Those Produced In The Past Thousand Years. Through Them There Has Today Been Created A New Theology And A New Jurisprudence; The Paracelsians Have Created Medicine Anew And The Copernicans Have Created Astronomy Anew. I Really Believe That At Last The World Is Alive, Indeed Seething, And That The Stimuli Of These Remarkable Conjunctions Did Not Act In Vain.

Without Proper Experiments I Conclude Nothing.

I Much Prefer The Sharpest Criticism Of A Single Intelligent Man To The Thoughtless Approval Of The Masses.