There Is Nothing Without Reason.

If We Were Magically Shrunk And Put Into Someone's Brain While She Was Thinking, We Would See All The Pumps, Pistons, Gears And Levers Working Away And We Would Be Able To Describe The Workings Completely, In Mechanical Terms, Thereby Completely Describing The Thought Processes Of The Brain. But That Description Would Not Contain Any Mention Of Thought! It Would Contain Nothing But Descriptions Of Pumps, Pistons, Levers!

Natural Religion Itself, Seems To Decay Very Much. Many Will Have Human Souls To Be Material: Others Make God Himself A Corporeal Being.

He Who Understands Archimedes And Apollonius Will Admire Less The Achievements Of The Foremost Men Of Later Times.

If We Could Sufficiently Understand The Order Of The Universe, We Should Find That It Exceeds All The Desires Of The Wisest Men, And That It Is Impossible To Make It Better Than It Is, Not Only As A Whole And In General But Also For Ourselves In Particular, If We Are Attached, As We Ought To Be, To The Author Of All, Not Only As To The Architect And Efficient Cause Of Our Being, But As To Our Master And To The Final Cause, Which Ought To Be The Whole Aim Of Our Will, And Which Can Alone Make Our Happiness.

Nothing Is Accomplished All At Once, And It Is One Of My Great Maxims, And One Of The Most Completely Verified, That Nature Makes No Leaps: A Maxim Which I Have Called The Law Of Continuity.