Ax: 100 Every Thing Doth Naturally Persevere

The Description Of Right Lines And Circles, Upon Which Geometry Is Founded, Belongs To Mechanics. Geometry Does Not Teach Us To Draw These Lines, But Requires Them To Be Drawn.

The Synthesis Consists In Assuming The Causes Discovered And Established As Principles, And By Them Explaining The Phænomena Proceeding From Them, And Proving The Explanations.

As A Blind Man Has No Idea Of Colors, So We Have No Idea Of The Manner By Which The All-wise God Perceives And Understands All Things.

No Old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) Love Mathematicks.

Are Not Gross Bodies And Light Convertible Into One Another; And May Not Bodies Receive Much Of Their Activity From The Particles Of Light Which Enter Into Their Composition? The Changing Of Bodies Into Light, And Light Into Bodies, Is Very Conformable To The Course Of Nature, Which Seems Delighted With Transmutations.