It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
There is only one instrument which is adequate to investigate the things of the spirit, and that is the Spirit itself. Just as it is necessary to train a man for scientific research in the physical world, so also is a long and slow process required to fit oneself for investigation of the spiritual world.
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.