Geometry Is One And Eternal

Gravity Is A Mutual Affection Between Cognate Bodies Towards Union Or Conjunction (similar In Kind To The Magnetic Virtue), So That The Earth Attracts A Stone Much Rather Than The Stone Seeks The Earth.

I Myself, A Professional Mathematician, On Re-reading My Own Work Find It Strains My Mental Powers To Recall To Mind From The Figures The Meanings Of The Demonstrations, Meanings Which I Myself Originally Put Into The Figures And The Text From My Mind. But When I Attempt To Remedy The Obscurity Of The Material By Putting In Extra Words, I See Myself Falling Into The Opposite Fault Of Becoming Chatty In Something Mathematical.

We Do Not Ask What Hope Of Gain Makes A Little Bird Warble, Since We Know That It Takes Delight In Singing Because It Is For That Very Singing That The Bird Was Made, So There Is No Need To Ask Why The Human Mind Undertakes Such Toil In Seeking Out These Secrets Of The Heavens. ... And Just As Other Animals, And The Human Body, Are Sustained By Food And Drink, So The Very Spirit Of Man, Which Is Something Distinct From Man, Is Nourished, Is Increased, And In A Sense Grows Up On This Diet Of Knowledge, And Is More Like The Dead Than The Living If It Is Touched By No Desire For These Things.

Either... The Moving Intelligences Of The Planets Are Weakest In Those That Are Farthest From The Sun, Or... There Is One Moving Intelligence In The Sun, The Common Center, Forcing Them All Round, But Those Most Violently Which Are Nearest, And That It Languishes In Some Sort And Grows Weaker At The Most Distant, Because Of The Remoteness And The Attenuation Of The Virtue.

As Soon As Somebody Demonstrates The Art Of Flying, Settlers From Our Species Of Man Will Not Be Lacking On The Moon And Jupiter. Who Would Have Believed That A Huge Ocean Could Be Crossed More Peacefully And Safely Than The The Narrow Expanse Of The Adriatic, The Baltic Sea Or The English Channel? Given Ships Or Sails Adapted To The Breezes Of Heaven, There Will Be Those Who Will Not Shrink From Even That Vast Expanse.