Where Both Are Friends, It Is Right

'tis The Temper Of The Hot And Superstitious Part Of Mankind In Matters Of Religion Ever To Be Fond Of Mysteries, And For That Reason To Like Best What They Understand Least.

God Who Gave Animals Self Motion Beyond Our Understanding Is Without Doubt Able To Implant Other Principles Of Motion In Bodies [which] We May Understand As Little. Some Would Readily Grant This May Be A Spiritual One; Yet A Mechanical One Might Be Showne, Did Not I Think It Better To Pass It By.

The Wonderful Arrangement And Harmony Of The Cosmos Would Only Originate In The Plan Of An Almighty Omniscient Being. This Is And Remains My Greatest Comprehension.

Our Design, Not Respecting Arts, But Philosophy, And Our Subject, Not Manual, But Natural Powers, We Consider Chiefly Those Things Which Relate To Gravity, Levity, Elastic Force, The Resistance Of Fluids, And The Like Forces, Whether Attractive Or Impulsive; And Therefore We Offer This Work As Mathematical Principles Of Philosophy; For All The Difficulty Of Philosophy Seems To Consist In This From The Phenomena Of Motions To Investigate The Forces Of Nature, And Then From These Forces To Demonstrate The Other Phenomena.

I Have Not Been Able To Discover The Cause Of Those Properties Of Gravity From Phenomena, And I Frame No Hypotheses; For Whatever Is Not Deduced From The Phenomena Is To Be Called A Hypothesis, And Hypotheses, Whether Metaphysical Or Physical, Whether Of Occult Qualities Or Mechanical, Have No Place In Experimental Philosophy.