The Impossibility of Certainty

"I must own that as the events I am about to describe might have happened many different ways my choice of these I shall assign can be grounded on nothing but mere conjecture" "It is impossible to form any other system that would not supply me with the same results and from which I might not draw the same conclusion this will authorize me to be the more concise in my reflections on the manner in which the lapse of time makes amends for the little versumilitude of events. The surprising power of very trivial causes when they act without intermission on the impossibility there is on the one hand of destroying certain hypotheses if on the other we cannot give them the degree of certainty which facts must be