I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaph...ysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a p...rettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diver...ting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body i...s in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »