Just As The Eye Was Made To

As Soon As Somebody Demonstrates The Art Of Flying, Settlers From Our Species Of Man Will Not Be Lacking On The Moon And Jupiter... Given Ships Or Sails Adapted To The Breezes Of Heaven, There Will Be Those Who Will Not Shrink From Even That Vast Expanse.

I Am Much Occupied With The Investigation Of The Physical Causes [of Motions In The Solar System]. My Aim In This Is To Show That The Celestial Machine Is To Be Likened Not To A Divine Organism But Rather To A Clockwork ... Insofar As Nearly All The Manifold Movements Are Carried Out By Means Of A Single, Quite Simple Magnetic Force. This Physical Conception Is To Be Presented Through Calculation And Geometry.

Truth Is The Daughter Of Time, And I Feel No Shame In Being Her Midwife.

Discover The Force Of The Skies O Men: Once Recognised It Can Be Put To Use.

Nothing Which Consists Of Corporeal Matter Is Absolutely Light, But That Is Comparatively Lighter Which Is Rarer, Either By Its Own Nature, Or By Accidental Heat. And It Is Not To Be Thought That Light Bodies Are Escaping To The Surface Of The Universe While They Are Carried Upwards, Or That They Are Not Attracted By The Earth. They Are Attracted, But In A Less Degree, And So Are Driven Outwards By The Heavy Bodies; Which Being Done, They Stop, And Are Kept By The Earth In Their Own Place.