The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.