Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou Little Knowest The

I Feign No Hypotheses.

The Qualities Of Bodies, Which Admit Neither Intension Nor Remission Of Degrees, And Which Are Found To Belong To Fill Bodies Within The Reach Of Our Experiments, Are To Be Esteemed The Universal Qualities Of All Bodies Whatsoever.

Do Not The Rays Of Light Which Fall Upon Bodies, And Are Reflected Or Refracted, Begin To Bend Before They Arrive At The Bodies; And Are They Not Reflected, Refracted, And Inflected, By One And The Same Principle, Acting Variously In Various Circumstances?

This Principle Of Nature Being Very Remote From The Conceptions Of Philosophers, I Forbore To Describe It In That Book, Least I Should Be Accounted An Extravagant Freak And So Prejudice My Readers Against All Those Things Which Were The Main Designe Of The Book.

It Is The Weight, Not Numbers Of Experiments That Is To Be Regarded.