![The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiences [experiments] and then to proceed slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-best-and-safest-way-of-philosophising-seems-to-be-first-to-enquire-diligentl.jpg)
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