By Denying Scientific Principles, One May Maintain

Names And Attributes Must Be Accommodated To The Essence Of Things, And Not The Essence To The Names, Since Things Come First And Names Afterwards.

They Know That It Is Human Nature To Take Up Causes Whereby A Man May Oppress His Neighbor, No Matter How Unjustly. ... Hence They Have Had No Trouble In Finding Men Who Would Preach The Damnability And Heresy Of The New Doctrine From The Very Pulpit.

Science Proceeds More By What It Has Learned To Ignore Than What It Takes Into Account.

If Experiments Are Performed Thousands Of Times At All Seasons And In Every Place Without Once Producing The Effects Mentioned By Your Philosophers, Poets, And Historians, This Will Mean Nothing And We Must Believe Their Words Rather Than Our Own Eyes?

All Truths Are Easy To Understand Once They Are Discovered; The Point Is To Discover Them.