The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch,be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

All men have opinions, but few think.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.