I Feign No Hypotheses.

The Way To Chastity Is Not To Struggle Directly With Incontinent Thoughts But To Avert The Thoughts By Some Imployment, Or By Reading, Or Meditating On Other Things.

Do Not Great Bodies Conserve Their Heat The Longest, Their Parts Heating One Another, And May Not Great Dense And Fix'd Bodies, When Heated Beyond A Certain Degree, Emit Light So Copiously, As By The Emission And Re-action Of Its Light, And The Reflexions And Refractions Of Its Rays Within Its Pores To Grow Still Hotter, Till It Comes To A Certain Period Of Heat, Such As Is That Of The Sun?

Now The Smallest Particles Of Matter May Cohere By The Strongest Attractions, And Compose Bigger Particles Of Weaker Virture.... There Are Therefore Agents In Nature Able To Make The Particles Of Bodies Stick Together By Very Strong Attraction. And It Is The Business Of Experimental Philosophy To Find Them Out.

A Man May Imagine Things That Are False, But He Can Only Understand Things That Are True, For If The Things Be False, The Apprehension Of Them Is Not Understanding.

The Seed Of A Tree Has The Nature Of A Branch Or Twig Or Bud. It Is A Part Of The Tree, But If Separated And Set In The Earth To Be Better Nourished, The Embryo Or Young Tree Contained In It Takes Root And Grows Into A New Tree.