Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

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

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.