Whence Arises All That Order And Beauty

What We Know Is A Drop, What We Don't Know Is An Ocean.

I See I Have Made Myself A Slave To Philosophy, But If I Get Free Of Mr. Linus's Business I Will Resolutely Bid Adew To It Eternally, Excepting For What I Do For My Private Satisfaction Or Leave To Come Out After Me. For I See A Man Must Either Resolve To Put Out Nothing New Or To Become A Slave To Defend It.

As In Mathematicks, So In Natural Philosophy, The Investigation Of Difficult Things By The Method Of Analysis, Ought Ever To Precede The Method Of Composition. This Analysis Consists In Making Experiments And Observations, And In Drawing General Conclusions From Them By Induction, And Admitting Of No Objections Against The Conclusions, But Such As Are Taken From Experiments, Or Other Certain Truths. For Hypotheses Are Not To Be Regarded In Experimental Philosophy.

I Do Not Know What I May Appear To The World, But To Myself I Seem To Have Been Only A Boy Playing On The Seashore.

[1.] And First I Suppose That There Is Diffused Through All Places An Aethereal Substance Capable Of Contraction & Dilatation, Strongly Elastick, & In A Word, Much Like Air In All Respects, But Far More Subtile. 2. I Suppose This Aether Pervades All Gross Bodies, But Yet So As To Stand Rarer In Their Pores Then In Free Spaces, & So Much Ye Rarer As Their Pores Are Less ... 3. I Suppose Ye Rarer Aether Within Bodies & Ye Denser Without Them, Not To Be Terminated In A Mathematical Superficies, But To Grow Gradually Into One Another.