Therefore To The Same Natural

If Two Angels Were Sent Down From Heaven -one To Conduct An Empire And The Other To Sweep The Streets -they Would Feel No Inclination To Change Employment Because An Angel Would Know That No Matter What We Are Doing, It's An Opportunity To Bring Joy, Deepen Our Understanding And Expand Our Life.

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 Vulgar Mechanick Can Practice What He Has Been Taught Or Seen Done, But If He Is In An Error He Knows Not How To Find It Out And Correct It, And If You Put Him Out Of His Road He Is At A Stand. Whereas He That Is Able To Reason Nimbly And Judiciously About Figure, Force, And Motion, Is Never At Rest Till He Gets Over Every Rub. (from A Letter Dated 25 May, 1694)

Hypotheses Non Fingo. I Frame No Hypotheses.

If I Have Ever Made Any Valuable Discoveries, It Has Been Due More To Patient Attention, Than To Any Other Talent