I Have A Fundamental Belief In The

We Are Not To Consider The World As The Body Of God: He Is An Uniform Being, Void Of Organs, Members, Or Parts; And They Are His Creatures, Subordinate To Him, And Subservient To His Will.

Against Filling The Heavens With Fluid Mediums, Unless They Be Exceeding Rare, A Great Objection Arises From The Regular And Very Lasting Motions Of The Planets And Comets In All Manner Of Courses Through The Heavens.

Truth Is The Offspring Of Silence And Meditation.

Gravity Explains The Motions Of The Planets, But It Cannot Explain Who Sets The Planets In Motion.

Thus Far I Have Explained The Phenomena Of The Heavens And Of Our Sea By The Force Of Gravity, But I Have Not Yet Assigned A Cause To Gravity. Indeed, This Force Arises From Some Cause That Penetrates As Far As The Centers Of The Sun And Planets Without Any Diminution Of Its Power To Act, And That Acts Not In Proportion To The Quantity Of The Surfaces Of The Particles On Which It Acts (as Mechanical Causes Are Wont To Do) But In Proportion To The Quantity Of Solid Matter, And Whose Action Is Extended Everywhere To Immense Distances, Always Decreasing As The Squares Of The Distances.