I Feign No Hypotheses.

Trials Are Medicines Which Our Gracious And Wise Physician Prescribes Because We Need Them; And He Proportions The Frequency And Weight Of Them To What The Case Requires. Let Us Trust His Skill And Thank Him For His Prescription.

This Excellent Mathematician Having Given Us, In The Transactions Of February Last, An Account Of The Cause, Which Induced Him To Think Upon Reflecting Telescopes, Instead Of Refracting Ones, Hath Thereupon Presented The Curious World With An Essay Of What May Be Performed By Such Telescopes; By Which It Is Found, That Telescopical Tubes May Be Considerably Shortened Without Prejudice To Their Magnifiying Effect. On His Invention Of The Catadioptrical Telescope, As He Communicated To The Royal Society.

The Qualities Of Bodies, Which Admit Neither Intension Nor Remission Of Degrees, And Which Are Found To Belong To Fill Bodies Within The Reach Of Our Experiments, Are To Be Esteemed The Universal Qualities Of All Bodies Whatsoever.

A Vulgar Mechanick Can Practice What He Has Been Taught Or Seen Done, But If He Is In An Error He Knows Not How To Find It Out And Correct It, And If You Put Him Out Of His Road He Is At A Stand. Whereas He That Is Able To Reason Nimbly And Judiciously About Figure, Force, And Motion, Is Never At Rest Till He Gets Over Every Rub. (from A Letter Dated 25 May, 1694)

I Feign No Hypotheses.