The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All

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.

Did Blind Chance Know That There Was Light And What Was Its Refraction, And Fit The Eyes Of All Creatures After The Most Curious Manner To Make Use Of It? These And Other Suchlike Considerations, Always Have, And Always Will Prevail With Mankind, To Believe That There Is A Being Who Made All Things, Who Has All Things In His Power, And Who Is Therefore To Be Feared.

There Are More Sure Marks Of Authenticity In The Bible Than In Any Profane History.

I Keep The Subject Of My Inquiry Constantly Before Me, And Wait Till The First Dawning Opens Gradually, By Little And Little, Into A Full And Clear Light.

If The Ancient Churches, In Debating And Deciding The Greatest Mysteries Of Religion, Knew Nothing Of These Two Texts, I Understand Not Why We Should Be So Fond Of Them Now The Debate Is Over.