The Instinct Of Brutes And Insects Can

Therefore To The Same Natural Effects We Must, As Far As Possible, Assign The Same Causes.

As In Mathematicks, So In Natural Philosophy, The Investigation Of Difficult Things By The Method Of Analysis, Ought Ever To Precede The Method Of Composition. This Analysis Consists In Making Experiments And Observations, And In Drawing General Conclusions From Them By Induction, And Admitting Of No Objections Against The Conclusions, But Such As Are Taken From Experiments, Or Other Certain Truths. For Hypotheses Are Not To Be Regarded In Experimental Philosophy.

A Cylinder Of Air Reaching To The Top Of The Atmosphere Is Of Equal Weight With A Cylinder Of Water About 33 Feet High.

In The Absence Of Any Other Proof, The Thumb Alone Would Convince Me Of God's Existence.

Qu. 31. Have Not The Small Particles Of Bodies Certain Powers, Virtues Or Forces, By Which They Act At A Distance, Not Only Upon The Rays Of Light For Reflecting, Refracting And Reflecting Them, But Also Upon One Another For Producing A Great Part Of The Phænomena Of Nature?