The Best Way To Understanding

The Best And Safest Way Of Philosophising Seems To Be, First To Enquire Diligently Into The Properties Of Things, And To Establish Those Properties By Experiences [experiments] And Then To Proceed Slowly To Hypotheses For The Explanation Of Them. For Hypotheses Should Be Employed Only In Explaining The Properties Of Things, But Not Assumed In Determining Them; Unless So Far As They May Furnish Experiments.

A Cylinder Of Air Reaching To The Top Of The Atmosphere Is Of Equal Weight With A Cylinder Of Water About 33 Feet High.

Do Not Several Sorts Of Rays Make Vibrations Of Several Bignesses, Which According To Their Bigness Excite Sensations Of Several Colours, Much After The Manner That The Vibrations Of The Air, According To Their Several Bignesses Excite Sensations Of Several Sounds? And Particularly Do Not The Most Refrangible Rays Excite The Shortest Vibrations For Making A Sensation Of Deep Violet, The Least Refrangible The Largest Form Making A Sensation Of Deep Red, And Several Intermediate Sorts Of Rays, Vibrations Of Several Intermediate Bignesses To Make Sensations Of Several Intemediate Colours?

Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou Little Knowest The Mischief Done! [apocryphal]

It Is The Perfection Of God's Works That They Are All Done With The Greatest Simplicity. He Is The God Of Order And Not Of Confusion. And Therefore As They Would Understand The Frame Of The World Must Endeavor To Reduce Their Knowledge To All Possible Simplicity, So Must It Be In Seeking To Understand These Visions.