We Are Not To Consider The World

Truth Is The Offspring Of Silence And Meditation.

We Account The Scriptures Of God To Be The Most Sublime Philosophy.

The Description Of Right Lines And Circles, Upon Which Geometry Is Founded, Belongs To Mechanics. Geometry Does Not Teach Us To Draw These Lines, But Requires Them To Be Drawn.

From What Has Been Said It Is Also Evident, That The Whiteness Of The Sun's Light Is Compounded All The Colours Wherewith The Several Sorts Of Rays Whereof That Light Consists, When By Their Several Refrangibilities They Are Separated From One Another, Do Tinge Paper Or Any Other White Body Whereon They Fall. For Those Colours ... Are Unchangeable, And Whenever All Those Rays With Those Their Colours Are Mix'd Again, They Reproduce The Same White Light As Before.

. . . Newton Was An Unquestioning Believer In An All-wise Creator Of The Universe, And In His Own Inability - Like The Boy On The Seashore - To Fathom The Entire Ocean In All Its Depths. He Therefore Believed That There Were Not Only Many Things In Heaven Beyond His Philosophy, But Plenty On Earth As Well, And He Made It His Business To Understand For Himself What The Majority Of Intelligent Men Of His Time Accepted Without Dispute (to Them It Was As Natural As Common Sense) - The Traditional Account Of The Creation.