Nature Does Not Make Leaps.

It Is God Who Is The Ultimate Reason Things, And The Knowledge Of God Is No Less The Beginning Of Science Than His Essence And Will Are The Beginning Of Things.

We Should Like Nature To Go No Further; We Should Like It To Be Finite, Like Our Mind; But This Is To Ignore The Greatness And Majesty Of The Author Of Things.

The Art Of Discovering The Causes Of Phenomena, Or True Hypotheses, Is Like The Art Of Deciphering, In Which An Ingenious Conjecture Often Greatly Shortens The Road.

Now, As There Is An Infinity Of Possible Universes In The Ideas Of God, And As Only One Of Them Can Exist, There Must Be A Sufficient Reason For God's Choice, Which Determines Him Toward One Rather Than Another. And This Reason Can Be Found Only In The Fitness, Or The Degrees Of Perfection, That These Worlds Contain, Since Each Possible Thing Has The Right To Claim Existence In Proportion To The Perfection It Involves.

I Am Convinced That The Unwritten Knowledge Scattered Among Men Of Different Callings Surpasses In Quantity And In Importance Anything We Find In Books, And That The Greater Part Of Our Wealth Has Yet To Be Recorded.