Poetry Is A Kind Of Ingenious Nonsense.

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

Let Me Think... I Wonder If An Anvil Will Drop Like An Apple?

The Best And Safest Way Of Philosophising Seems To Be, First To Enquire Diligently Into The Properties Of Things, And To Establish Those Properties By Experiences [experiments] And Then To Proceed Slowly To Hypotheses For The Explanation Of Them. For Hypotheses Should Be Employed Only In Explaining The Properties Of Things, But Not Assumed In Determining Them; Unless So Far As They May Furnish Experiments.

His Epitaph: Who, By Vigor Of Mind Almost Divine, The Motions And Figures Of The Planets, The Paths Of Comets, And The Tides Of The Seas First Demonstrated.

Do Not Bodies Act Upon Light At A Distance, And By Their Action Bend Its Rays; And Is Not This Action (caeteris Paribus) [all Else Being Equal] Strongest At The Least Distance?