It is pleasant, with the sea raging under the winds, to gaze upon the great struggles of another from the land.
The fashion of this world passeth away and I would fain occupy myself with the things that are abiding.
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.