A Cylinder Of Air Reaching To The

I Have Been Much Amused At Ye Singular Phenomena Resulting From Bringing Of A Needle Into Contact With A Piece Of Amber Or Resin Fricated On Silke Clothe. Ye Flame Putteth Me In Mind Of Sheet Lightning On A Small-how Very Small-scale.

It Is Indeed A Matter Of Great Difficulty To Discover, And Effectually To Distinguish, The True Motions Of Particular Bodies From The Apparent; Because The Parts Of That Immovable Space, In Which Those Motions Are Performed, Do By No Means Come Under The Observation Of Our Senses. Yet The Thing Is Not Altogether Desperate; For We Have Some Arguments To Guide Us, Partly From The Apparent Motions, Which Are The Differences Of The True Motions; Partly From The Forces, Which Are The Causes And Effects Of The True Motions.

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.

To Explain All Nature Is Too Difficult A Task For Any One Man Or Even For Any One Age. Tis Much Better To Do A Little With Certainty & Leave The Rest For Others That Come After Than To Explain All Things By Conjecture Without Making Sure Of Any Thing.

An Object That Is At Rest Will Tend To Stay At Rest. An Object That Is In Motion Will Tend To Stay In Motion.