Whence Arises All That Order

In Experimental Philosophy, Propositions Gathered From Phenomena By Induction Should Be Considered Either Exactly Or Very Nearly True Notwithstanding Any Contrary Hypotheses, Until Yet Other Phenomena Make Such Propositions Either More Exact Or Liable To Exceptions.

Is Not Fire A Body Heated So Hot As To Emit Light Copiously? For What Else Is A Red Hot Iron Than Fire? And What Else Is A Burning Coal Than Red Hot Wood?

No Great Discovery Was Ever Made Without A Bold Guess.

From What Has Been Said It Is Also Evident, That The Whiteness Of The Sun's Light Is Compounded All The Colours Wherewith The Several Sorts Of Rays Whereof That Light Consists, When By Their Several Refrangibilities They Are Separated From One Another, Do Tinge Paper Or Any Other White Body Whereon They Fall. For Those Colours ... Are Unchangeable, And Whenever All Those Rays With Those Their Colours Are Mix'd Again, They Reproduce The Same White Light As Before.

I Can See So Far Because I Stood On The Shoulders Of Giants.