The Degree And Duration Of The Torment

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.

To Arrive At The Simplest Truth Requires Years Of Contemplation.

All Knowledge And Understanding Of The Universe Was No More Than Playing With Stones And Shells On The Seashore Of The Vast Imponderable Ocean Of Truth.

If The Ancient Churches, In Debating And Deciding The Greatest Mysteries Of Religion, Knew Nothing Of These Two Texts, I Understand Not Why We Should Be So Fond Of Them Now The Debate Is Over.

He Who Thinks Half-heartedly Will Not Believe In God; But He Who Really Thinks Has To Believe In God.