Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.

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.

I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy.