Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

What goes up must come down.

I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting for what I do for my private satisfaction or leave to come out after me. For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it.

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.