To Myself I Am Only A Child

The Description Of Right Lines And Circles, Upon Which Geometry Is Founded, Belongs To Mechanics. Geometry Does Not Teach Us To Draw These Lines, But Requires Them To Be Drawn.

To Explain All Nature Is Too Difficult A Task For Any One Man Or Even For Any One Age. Tis Much Better To Do A Little With Certainty & Leave The Rest For Others That Come After Than To Explain All Things By Conjecture Without Making Sure Of Any Thing.

Gravity Explains The Motions Of The Planets, But It Cannot Explain Who Sets The Planets In Motion.

One [method] Is By A Watch To Keep Time Exactly. But, By Reason Of The Motion Of The Ship, The Variation Of Heat And Cold, Wet And Dry, And The Difference Of Gravity In Different Latitudes, Such A Watch Hath Not Yet Been Made.

Do Not Bodies And Light Act Mutually Upon One Another; That Is To Say, Bodies Upon Light In Emitting, Reflecting, Refracting And Inflecting It, And Light Upon Bodies For Heating Them, And Putting Their Parts Into A Vibrating Motion Wherein Heat Consists?