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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.

Do Not Bodies Act Upon Light At A Distance, And By Their Action Bend Its Rays; And Is Not This Action (caeteris Paribus) [all Else Being Equal] Strongest At The Least Distance?

Plato Is My Friend, Aristotle Is My Friend, But My Greatest Friend Is Truth.

Physics, Beware Of Metaphysics.

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.