And therefore we shall do no injury to our knowledge, when we modestly think with ourselves, that we are so far from being able to comprehend the whole nature of the universe, and all the things contained in it, that we are not capable of a philosophical knowledge of the bodies that are about us, and make a part of us: concerning their secondary qualities, powers, and operations, we can have no universal certainty.
Eta horregatik ez diogu geure ezagumenari irainik egiten geure baitan apaltasunez pentsatzen dugunean unibertsoaren izaera osoa eta bertan dauden gauza guztiak ulertzetik hain urrun gaudela, non ez garen geure inguruan ditugun eta gure osagai diren gorputzen ezagutza filosofikorik edukitzeko gai ere, ezin baitugu eduki haien bigarren koalitateen, ahalen eta eragiketen ziurtasun unibertsalik.