The Synthesis Consists In Assuming The Causes

My Principal Method For Defeating Error And Heresy Is By Establishing The Truth. One Purposes To Fill A Bushel With Tares, But If I Can Fill It First With Wheat, I May Defy His Attempts.

Ax: 100 Every Thing Doth Naturally Persevere In Yt State In Wch It Is Unlesse It Bee Interrupted By Some Externall Cause, Hence... [a] Body Once Moved Will Always Keepe Ye Same Celerity, Quantity & Determination Of Its Motion.

I Have Presented Principles Of Philosophy That Are Not, However, Philosophical But Strictly Mathematical-that Is, Those On Which The Study Of Philosophy Can Be Based. These Principles Are The Laws And Conditions Of Motions And Of Forces, Which Especially Relate To Philosophy.

What We Know Is A Drop, What We Don't Know Is An Ocean.

When The Adversaries Of Erasmus Had Got The Trinity Into His Edition, They Threw By Their Manuscript As An Old Almanac Out Of Date.