Who Would Dare Assert That We Know

The Difficulties In The Study Of The Infinite Arise Because We Attempt, With Our Finite Minds, To Discuss The Infinite, Assigning To It Those Properties Which We Give To The Finite And Limited; But This... Is Wrong, For We Cannot Speak Of Infinite Quantities As Being The One Greater Or Less Than Or Equal To Another.

Nature . . . Is Inexorable And Immutable; She Never Transgresses The Laws Imposed Upon Her, Nor Cares A Whit Whether Her Abstruse Reasons And Methods Of Operations Are Understandable To Men.

For My Part I Consider The Earth Very Noble And Admirable Precisely Because Of The Diverse Alterations, Changes, Generations, Etc. That Occur In It Incessantly.

And Believe Me, If I Were Again Beginning My Studies, I Should Follow The Advice Of Plato And Start With The Mathematical Sciences, Which Proceed Very Cautiously And Admit Nothing As Established Until It Has Been Rigorously Demonstrated.

Philosophy Itself Cannot But Benefit From Our Disputes, For If Our Conceptions Prove True, New Achievements Will Be Made; If False, Their Refutation Will Further Confirm The Original Doctrines.