...for A Long Time I Wanted To

O Telescope, Instrument Of Much Knowledge, More Precious Than Any Sceptre!

The Sphere Of The Attractive Virtue Which Is In The Moon Extends As Far As The Earth, And Entices Up The Waters; But As The Moon Flies Rapidly Across The Zenith, And The Waters Cannot Follow So Quickly, A Flow Of The Ocean Is Occasioned In The Torrid Zone Towards The Westward.

If Two Stones Were Placed... Near Each Other, And Beyond The Sphere Of Influence Of A Third Cognate Body, These Stones, Like Two Magnetic Needles, Would Come Together In The Intermediate Point, Each Approaching The Other By A Space Proportional To The Comparative Mass Of The Other.

It May Be Well To Wait A Century For A Reader, As God Has Waited Six Thousand Years For An Observer.

When Things Are In Order, If The Cause Of The Orderliness Cannot Be Deduced From The Motion Of The Elements Or From The Composition Of Matter, It Is Quite Possibly A Cause Possessing A Mind.