No Old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) Love

To Every Action There Is Always Opposed An Equal Reaction.

Do Not Great Bodies Conserve Their Heat The Longest, Their Parts Heating One Another, And May Not Great Dense And Fix'd Bodies, When Heated Beyond A Certain Degree, Emit Light So Copiously, As By The Emission And Re-action Of Its Light, And The Reflexions And Refractions Of Its Rays Within Its Pores To Grow Still Hotter, Till It Comes To A Certain Period Of Heat, Such As Is That Of The Sun?

The Best And Safest Way Of Philosophising Seems To Be, First To Enquire Diligently Into The Properties Of Things, And To Establish Those Properties By Experiences [experiments] And Then To Proceed Slowly To Hypotheses For The Explanation Of Them. For Hypotheses Should Be Employed Only In Explaining The Properties Of Things, But Not Assumed In Determining Them; Unless So Far As They May Furnish Experiments.

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

It Seems Probable To Me That God, In The Beginning, Formed Matter In Solid, Massy, Hard, Impenetrable, Moveable Particles, Of Such Sizes And Figures, And With Such Other Properties, And In Such Proportions To Space, As Most Conduced To The End For Which He Formed Them; And That These Primitive Particles, Being Solids, Are Incomparably Harder Than Any Porous Bodies Compounded Of Them, Even So Very Hard As Never To Wear Or Break In Pieces; No Ordinary Power Being Able To Divide What God Had Made One In The First Creation.