Who Would Dare Assert That We Know

But Of All Other Stupendous Inventions, What Sublimity Of Mind Must Have Been His Who Conceived How To Communicate His Most Secret Thoughts To Any Other Person, Though Very Far Distant Either In Time Or Place? And With No Greater Difficulty Than The Various Arrangement Of Two Dozen Little Signs Upon Paper? Let This Be The Seal Of All The Admirable Inventions Of Man.

In The Long Run My Observations Have Convinced Me That Some Men, Reasoning Preposterously, First Establish Some Conclusion In Their Minds Which, Either Because Of Its Being Their Own Or Because Of Their Having Received It From Some Person Who Has Their Entire Confidence, Impresses Them So Deeply That One Finds It Impossible Ever To Get It Out Of Their Heads.

In Questions Of Science, The Authority Of A Thousand Is Not Worth The Humble Reasoning Of A Single Individual.

It Is Surely Harmful To Souls To Make It A Heresy To Believe What Is Proved.

They Seemed To Forget That The Increase Of Known Truths Stimulates The Investigation, Establishment And Growth Of The Arts; Not Their Dimination Or Destruction.