The Book Of Nature Is Written In

Wine Is Sunlight, Held Together By Water.

To Excite In Us Tastes, Odors, And Sounds I Believe That Nothing Is Required In External Bodies Except Shapes, Numbers, And Slow Or Rapid Movements. ... If Ears, Tongues, And Noses Were Removed, Shapes And Numbers And Motions Would Remain, But Not Odors Or Tastes Or Sounds.

The Laws Of Nature Are Written By The Hand Of God In The Language Of Mathematics.

Nature . . . Is Inexorable And Immutable; She Never Transgresses The Laws Imposed Upon Her, Nor Cares A Whit Whether Her Abstruse Reasons And Methods Of Operations Are Understandable To Men.

But, Because My Private Lectures And Domestic Pupils Are A Great Hinderance And Intteruption Of My Studies, I Wish To Live Entirely Exempt From The Former, And In Great Measure From The Latter. ... In Short, I Should Wish To Gain My Bread From My Writings.