Nature Is Pleased With Simplicity. And Nature

Henceforward The Christian Churches Having A Form Of Godliness, But Denying The Power Thereof, Came Into The Hands Of The Encratites: And The Heathens, Who In The Fourth Century Came Over In Great Numbers To The Christians, Embraced More Readily This Sort Of Christianity, As Having A Greater Affinity With Their Old Superstitions, Than That Of The Sincere Christians; Who By The Lamps Of The Seven Churches Of Asia, And Not By The Lamps Of The Monasteries, Had Illuminated The Church Catholic During The Three First Centuries.

Do Not The Rays Of Light Which Fall Upon Bodies, And Are Reflected Or Refracted, Begin To Bend Before They Arrive At The Bodies; And Are They Not Reflected, Refracted, And Inflected, By One And The Same Principle, Acting Variously In Various Circumstances?

Nature Is Pleased With Simplicity. And Nature Is No Dummy.

The Latest Authors, Like The Most Ancient, Strove To Subordinate The Phenomena Of Nature To The Laws Of Mathematics.

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