You Have To Make The Rules, Not

If The Ancient Churches, In Debating And Deciding The Greatest Mysteries Of Religion, Knew Nothing Of These Two Texts, I Understand Not Why We Should Be So Fond Of Them Now The Debate Is Over.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou Little Knowest The Mischief Done! [apocryphal]

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.

Nature Does Nothing In Vain When Less Will Serve; For Nature Is Pleased With Simplicity And Affects Not The Pomp Of Superfluous Causes.

The Prophecies Of Daniel Are All Of Them Related To One Another, As If They Were But Several Parts Of One General Prophecy, Given At Several Times. The First Is The Easiest To Be Understood, And Every Following Prophecy Adds Something New To The Former.