"By the addition of... artificial Instruments and methods, there may be, in some manner, a reparation made for the mis…"

"[T]he limits, to which our thoughts are confin'd, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature it self; some par…"

"[A]ll the uncertainty, and mistakes of humane actions, proceed either from the narrowness and wandring of our Senses,…"

"[T]he footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shif…"

"[T]he dissolving parts of the Air are but few, that is, it seems of the nature of those Saline menstruums, or spirits…"

"The next care to be taken, in respect of the Senses, is a supplying of their infirmities with Instruments, and, as it…"

"It seems not improbable, but that by these helps the subtilty of the composition of Bodies, the structure of their pa…"

"I here present to the World my imperfect lndeavours; which though they shall prove no other way considerable, yet, I …"

"[I]in this present condition of knowledge, a man so qualified, as I have indeavoured to be, only with resolution, and…"

"[A]s there are these several parts that will rarifie and fly, or be driven up by the heat, so are there many others, …"