Nature does not make leaps. - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Thus it may be said that not only the soul, the mirror of an indestructible universe, is indestructible, but also the animal itself, though its mechanism may often perish in part and take off or put on an organic slough.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

There is nothing in the understanding which has not come from the senses, except the understanding itself, or the one who understands.