The Ignis Fatuus Is A Vapor Shining

The Main Business Of Natural Philosophy Is To Argue From Phænomena Without Feigning Hypotheses, And To Deduce Causes From Effects Till We Come To The Very First Cause, Which Certainly Is Not Mechanical; And Not Only To Unfold The Mechanism Of The World, But Chiefly To Resolve These, And To Such Like Questions.

The Synthesis Consists In Assuming The Causes Discovered And Established As Principles, And By Them Explaining The Phænomena Proceeding From Them, And Proving The Explanations.

My Powers Are Ordinary. Only My Application Brings Me Success.

As A Blind Man Has No Idea Of Colors, So We Have No Idea Of The Manner By Which The All-wise God Perceives And Understands All Things.

His Epitaph: Who, By Vigor Of Mind Almost Divine, The Motions And Figures Of The Planets, The Paths Of Comets, And The Tides Of The Seas First Demonstrated.