The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

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

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.