Nothing Occurs Contrary To Nature Except The

If Experiments Are Performed Thousands Of Times At All Seasons And In Every Place Without Once Producing The Effects Mentioned By Your Philosophers, Poets, And Historians, This Will Mean Nothing And We Must Believe Their Words Rather Than Our Own Eyes?

But Some, Besides Allegiance To Their Original Error, Possess I Know Not What Fanciful Interest In Remaining Hostile Not So Much Toward The Things In Question As Toward Their Discoverer.

Among The Great Men Who Have Philosophized About [the Action Of The Tides], The One Who Surprised Me Most Is Kepler. He Was A Person Of Independent Genius, [but He] Became Interested In The Action Of The Moon On The Water, And In Other Occult Phenomena, And Similar Childishness.

Two Truths Cannot Contradict One Another.

Well, Since Paradoxes Are At Hand, Let Us See How It Might Be Demonstrated That In A Finite Continuous Extension It Is Not Impossible For Infinitely Many Voids To Be Found.