Their Vain Presumption Of Knowing All Can

To Excite In Us Tastes, Odors, And Sounds I Believe That Nothing Is Required In External Bodies Except Shapes, Numbers, And Slow Or Rapid Movements. ... If Ears, Tongues, And Noses Were Removed, Shapes And Numbers And Motions Would Remain, But Not Odors Or Tastes Or Sounds.

What Ever The Course Of Our Lives, We Should Recieve Them As The Highest Gift From The Hand Of God, In Which Equally Reposed The Power To Do Nothing Whatever For Us. Indeed, We Should Accept Misfortune Not Only In Thanks, But In Infinite Gratitude To Providence, Which By Such Means Detaches Us From An Excessive Love For Earthly Things And Elevates Our Minds To The Celestial And Divine.

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.

Holy Scripture Could Never Lie Or Err...its Decrees Are Of Absolute And Inviolable Truth.

The Milky Way Is Nothing Else But A Mass Of Innumerable Stars Planted Together In Clusters.