As I for my part am perswaded, that had I been taught from my youth all the Truths whose demonstrations I have discovered since, and had taken no pains to learn them, perhaps I should never have known any other, or at least, I should never have acquired that habit, and that faculty which I think I have, still to finde out new ones, as I apply my self to the search of them.
Ni neu ere seguru nago honakoaz: gaztetatik irakatsi balizkidate gero neuk frogapena aurkitu diedan egia guztiak, eta ahaleginik gabe ikasi izan banitu, beharbada ez nukeela inoiz horietaz gain beste egiarik ezagutuko, eta, gutxienez, ez nukeela inoiz nireganatuko beti egia berriak aurkitzeko-hauen bila saiatzen naizen neurrian-nire ustez dudan erraztasuna.