[b]Isaac Newton
You have to make the rules, not follow them.[/b]
You know, if others let you.
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
I wonder if he really thinks that now?
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
Let’s explore that, Mr. Objectivist. Out in the world for example.
Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.
Of course anyone can believe that.
I have studied these things - you have not.
Would that it were actually that simple.
In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur, by which they may either be made more accurate, or liable to exceptions. This rule we must follow, that the argument of induction may not be evaded by hypotheses.
This has got to be true about something.