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• ...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain…
• I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.
• The world is my country. Science my religion.
• How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations,…
• It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.
• The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.
• One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.
• What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths,…
• I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part…
• The world is my country, science is my religion.

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