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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.

Wheresoever The Earth May Be Placed, Or Whithersoever It May Be Carried By Its Animal Faculty, Heavy Bodies Will Always Be Carried Towards It.

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.

Since We Astronomers Are Priests Of The Highest God In Regard To The Book Of Nature, It Befits Us To Be Thoughtful, Not Of The Glory Of Our Minds, But Rather, Above All Else, Of The Glory Of God.

Where There Is Matter, There Is Geometry.