The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be, first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.
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"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 sh…"
"The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn."
"The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent."
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
"For if the experiments which I relate be accurate, the science of colours will be a new one; for although colours have been observed from antiquity, yet the cause of their productions has remained unk…"
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