Johann Heinrich Lambert Quotes
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The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
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We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of astronomy.
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I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.
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We will found our hypothesis in the general laws of motion, whose effects are every where the same, and whose influence extends to the utmost limits of matter.
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This is all to which weak and limited beings can pretend, beings who occupy a point, and last but a moment in this mighty edifice built for eternity.
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We suppose the existence of a wise and beneficent Being who presided over the formation of the World, and who is pleased to display his infinite perfections on this illustrious theatre.
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I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
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In order to supply the defects of experience, we will have recourse to the probable conjectures of analogy, conclusions which we will bequeath to our posterity to be ascertained by new observations, which, if we augur rightly, will serve to establish our theory and to carry it gradually nearer to absolute certainty.
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But, are the faculties of our nature equal to this? and what are the principles which ought to guide us in these researches?
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I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.