In The Sciences, The Authority Of Thousands

It Vexes Me When They Would Constrain Science By The Authority Of The Scriptures, And Yet Do Not Consider Themselves Bound To Answer Reason And Experiment.

If There Were As Great A Scarcity Of Soil As Of Jewels Or Precious Metals, There Would Not Be A Prince Who Would Not Spend A Bushel Of Diamonds And Rubies And A Cartload Of Gold Just To Have Enough Earth To Plant A Jasmine In A Little Pot, Or To Sow An Orange Seed And Watch It Sprout, Grow, And Produce Its Handsome Leaves, Its Fragrant Flowers, And Fine Fruit.

Being Infinitely Amazed, So Do I Give Thanks To God, Who Has Been Pleased To Make Me The First Observer Of Marvelous Things, Unrevealed To Bygone Ages.

The Bible Shows The Way To Go To Heaven, Not The Way The Heavens Go.

Nothing Occurs Contrary To Nature Except The Impossible, And That Never Occurs.