My Principal Method For Defeating Error And

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.

Whence Arises All That Order And Beauty We See In The World?

My Powers Are Ordinary. Only My Application Brings Me Success.

Our Present Work Sets Forth Mathematical Principles Of Philosophy. For The Basic Problem Of Philosophy Seems To Be To Discover The Forces Of Nature From The Phenomena Of Motions And Then To Demonstrate The Other Phenomena From These Forces. It Is To These Ends That The General Propositions In Books 1 And 2 Are Directed, While In Book 3 Our Explanation Of The System Of The World Illustrates These Propositions.

This Most Beautiful System Of The Sun, Planets And Comets, Could Only Proceed From The Counsel And Dominion Of An Intelligent And Powerful Being.