I Consider My Greatest Accomplishment

Absolute, True And Mathematical Time, Of Itself, And From Its Own Nature Flows Equably Without Relation To Anything External.

And From True Lordship It Follows That The True God Is Living, Intelligent, And Powerful; From The Other Perfections, That He Is Supreme, Or Supremely Perfect. He Is Eternal And Infinite, Omnipotent And Omniscient; That Is, He Endures From Eternity To Eternity; And He Is Present From Infinity To Infinity; He Rules All Things, And He Knows All Things That Happen Or Can Happen.

To Explain All Nature Is Too Difficult A Task For Any One Man Or Even For Any One Age

Thus Far I Have Explained The Phenomena Of The Heavens And Of Our Sea By The Force Of Gravity, But I Have Not Yet Assigned A Cause To Gravity. Indeed, This Force Arises From Some Cause That Penetrates As Far As The Centers Of The Sun And Planets Without Any Diminution Of Its Power To Act, And That Acts Not In Proportion To The Quantity Of The Surfaces Of The Particles On Which It Acts (as Mechanical Causes Are Wont To Do) But In Proportion To The Quantity Of Solid Matter, And Whose Action Is Extended Everywhere To Immense Distances, Always Decreasing As The Squares Of The Distances.

By Such Deductions The Law Of Gravitation Is Rendered Probable, That Every Particle Attracts Every Other Particle With A Force Which Varies Inversely As The Square Of The Distance. The Law Thus Suggested Is Assumed To Be Universally True.