I Have A Fundamental Belief In The

My Powers Are Ordinary. Only My Application Brings Me Success.

Did Blind Chance Know That There Was Light And What Was Its Refraction, And Fit The Eyes Of All Creatures After The Most Curious Manner To Make Use Of It? These And Other Suchlike Considerations, Always Have, And Always Will Prevail With Mankind, To Believe That There Is A Being Who Made All Things, Who Has All Things In His Power, And Who Is Therefore To Be Feared.

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.

The Way To Chastity Is Not To Struggle Directly With Incontinent Thoughts But To Avert The Thoughts By Some Imployment, Or By Reading, Or Meditating On Other Things.

Our Present Work Sets Forth Mathematical Principles Of Philosophy. For The Basic Problem Of Philosophy Seems To Be To Discover The Forces Of Nature From The Phenomena Of Motions And Then To Demonstrate The Other Phenomena From These Forces. It Is To These Ends That The General Propositions In Books 1 And 2 Are Directed, While In Book 3 Our Explanation Of The System Of The World Illustrates These Propositions.