That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.