We Are To Admit No More Causes

I Do Not Know What I May Appear To The World, But To Myself I Seem To Have Been Only Like A Boy Playing On The Seashore, And Diverting Myself In Now And Then Finding A Smoother Pebble Or A Prettier Shell Than Ordinary, Whilst The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All Undiscovered Before Me.

It Is The Weight, Not Numbers Of Experiments That Is To Be Regarded.

To Derive Two Or Three General Principles Of Motion From Phænomena, And Afterwards To Tell Us How The Properties And Actions Of All Corporeal Things Follow From Those Manifest Principles, Would Be A Very Great Step In Philosophy.

As I Am Writing, Another Illustration Of Ye Generation Of Hills Proposed Above Comes Into My Mind. Milk Is As Uniform A Liquor As Ye Chaos Was. If Beer Be Poured Into It & Ye Mixture Let Stand Till It Be Dry, The Surface Of Ye Curdled Substance Will Appear As Rugged & Mountanous As The Earth In Any Place.

I Have A Fundamental Belief In The Bible As The Word Of God, Written By Men Who Were Inspired. I Study The Bible Daily. Opposition To Godliness Is Atheism In Profession And Idolatry In Practice. Atheism Is So Senseless And Odious To Mankind That It Never Had Many Professors.