I Feign No Hypotheses.

The Daily Disappearance And The Subsequent Rise Of The Sun Appeared To Many Of The Ancients As A True Resurrection; Thus, While The East Came To Be Regarded As The Source Of Light And Warmth, Happiness And Glory, The West Was Associated With Darkness And Chill, Decay And Death. This Led To The Custom Of Burying The Dead So As To Face The East When They Rose Again, And Of Building Temples And Shrines With An Opening Toward The East. To Effect This, Vitruvius, Two Thousand Years Ago, Gave Precise Rules, Which Are Still Followed By Christian Architects.

A Cylinder Of Air Reaching To The Top Of The Atmosphere Is Of Equal Weight With A Cylinder Of Water About 33 Feet High.

What Descartes Did Was A Good Step. You Have Added Much Several Ways, And Especially In Taking The Colours Of Thin Plates Into Philosophical Consideration. If I Have Seen A Little Further It Is By Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants.

Now The Smallest Particles Of Matter May Cohere By The Strongest Attractions, And Compose Bigger Particles Of Weaker Virture.... There Are Therefore Agents In Nature Able To Make The Particles Of Bodies Stick Together By Very Strong Attraction. And It Is The Business Of Experimental Philosophy To Find Them Out.

I Keep The Subject Of My Inquiry Constantly Before Me, And Wait Till The First Dawning Opens Gradually, By Little And Little, Into A Full And Clear Light.