To Me There Has Never Been A

The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All Undiscovered Before Me.

The Alternation Of Motion Is Ever Proportional To The Motive Force Impressed; And Is Made In The Direction Of The Right Line In Which That Force Is Impressed.

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 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?

I Shall Not Mingle Conjectures With Certainties.