Physics, Beware Of Metaphysics.

Through Algebra You Easily Arrive At Equations, But Always To Pass Therefrom To The Elegant Constructions And Demonstrations Which Usually Result By Means Of The Method Of Porisms Is Not So Easy, Nor Is One's Ingenuity And Power Of Invention So Greatly Exercised And Refined In This Analysis.

What Is There In Places Empty Of Matter? And Whence Is It That The Sun And Planets Gravitate Toward One Another Without Dense Matter Between Them? Whence Is It That Nature Doth Nothing In Vain? And Whence Arises All That Order And Beauty Which We See In The World? To What End Are Comets? And Whence Is It That Planets Move All One And The Same Way In Orbs Concentrick, While Comets Move All Manner Of Ways In Orbs Very Excentrick? And What Hinders The Fixed Stars From Falling Upon One Another?

Thus This Earth Resembles A Great Animall Or Rather An Inanimate Vegetable, Draws In Aethereal Breath For Its Dayly Refreshment And Vitall Ferment And Transpires Again Grosses Exhalations. And, According To The Condition Of All Other Things Living, Ought To Have Its Time Of Beginning, Youth, Old Age And Perishing.

To Me There Has Never Been A Higher Source Of Earthly Honor Or Distinction Than That Connected With Advances In Science.

Absolute, True, And Mathematical Time, In And Of Itself And Of Its Own Nature, Without Reference To Anything External, Flows Uniformly And By Another Name Is Called Duration. Relative, Apparent, And Common Time Is Any Sensible And External Measure (precise Or Imprecise) Of Duration By Means Of Motion; Such As A Measure-for Example, An Hour, A Day, A Month, A Year-is Commonly Used Instead Of True Time.