All My Discoveries Have Been

Centripetal Force Is The Force By Which Bodies Are Drawn From All Sides, Are Impelled, Or In Any Way Tend, Toward Some Point As To A Center.

It Is The Perfection Of God's Works That They Are All Done With The Greatest Simplicity. He Is The God Of Order And Not Of Confusion. And Therefore As They Would Understand The Frame Of The World Must Endeavor To Reduce Their Knowledge To All Possible Simplicity, So Must It Be In Seeking To Understand These Visions.

Bullialdus Wrote That All Force Respecting Ye Sun As Its Center & Depending On Matter Must Be Reciprocally In A Duplicate Ratio Of Ye Distance From Ye Center.

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.

To Me There Has Never Been A Higher Source Of Earthly Honor Or Distinction Than That Connected With Advances In Science.