I Feign No Hypotheses.

What Is There In Places Empty Of Matter? And Whence Is It That The Sun And Planets Gravitate Toward One Another Without Dense Matter Between Them? Whence Is It That Nature Doth Nothing In Vain? And Whence Arises All That Order And Beauty Which We See In The World? To What End Are Comets? And Whence Is It That Planets Move All One And The Same Way In Orbs Concentrick, While Comets Move All Manner Of Ways In Orbs Very Excentrick? And What Hinders The Fixed Stars From Falling Upon One Another?

In The Reign Of The Greek Emperor Justinian , And Again In The Reign Of Phocas , The Bishop Of Rome Obtained Some Dominion Over The Greek Churches, But Of No Long Continuance. His Standing Dominion Was Only Over The Nations Of The Western Empire, Represented By Daniel's Fourth Beast.

I Do Not Define Time, Space, Place, And Motion, As Being Well Known To All. Only I Must Observe, That The Common People Conceive Those Quantities Under No Other Notions But From The Relation They Bear To Sensible Objects. And Thence Arise Certain Prejudices, For The Removing Of Which It Will Be Convenient To Distinguish Them Into Absolute And Relative, True And Apparent, Mathematical And Common.

It Is The Weight, Not Numbers Of Experiments That Is To Be Regarded.

What We Know Is A Drop, What We Don't Know Is An Ocean.