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I Have Not Been Able To Discover The Cause Of Those Properties Of Gravity From Phenomena, And I Frame No Hypotheses; For Whatever Is Not Deduced From The Phenomena Is To Be Called A Hypothesis, And Hypotheses, Whether Metaphysical Or Physical, Whether Of Occult Qualities Or Mechanical, Have No Place In Experimental Philosophy.

A Good Watch May Serve To Keep A Recconing At Sea For Some Days And To Know The Time Of A Celestial Observ[at]ion: And For This End A Good Jewel Watch May Suffice Till A Better Sort Of Watch Can Be Found Out. But When The Longitude At Sea Is Once Lost, It Cannot Be Found Again By Any Watch.

I Know Not How I Seem To Others, But To Myself I Am But A Small Child Wandering Upon The Vast Shores Of Knowledge, Every Now And Then Finding A Small Bright Pebble To Content Myself With While The Vast Ocean Of Undiscovered Truth Lay Before Me.

Yet One Thing Secures Us What Ever Betide, The Scriptures Assures Us That The Lord Will Provide.

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.