Truth Is The Daughter Of

[quantity Is The Fundamental Feature Of Things,] The 'primarium Accidens Substantiae,' ...prior To The Other Categories.

I Myself, A Professional Mathematician, On Re-reading My Own Work Find It Strains My Mental Powers To Recall To Mind From The Figures The Meanings Of The Demonstrations, Meanings Which I Myself Originally Put Into The Figures And The Text From My Mind. But When I Attempt To Remedy The Obscurity Of The Material By Putting In Extra Words, I See Myself Falling Into The Opposite Fault Of Becoming Chatty In Something Mathematical.

Every Corporeal Substance, So Far Forth As It Is Corporeal, Has A Natural Fitness For Resting In Every Place Where It May Be Situated By Itself Beyond The Sphere Of Influence Of A Body Cognate With It.

We Do Not Ask What Hope Of Gain Makes A Little Bird Warble, Since We Know That It Takes Delight In Singing Because It Is For That Very Singing That The Bird Was Made, So There Is No Need To Ask Why The Human Mind Undertakes Such Toil In Seeking Out These Secrets Of The Heavens. ... And Just As Other Animals, And The Human Body, Are Sustained By Food And Drink, So The Very Spirit Of Man, Which Is Something Distinct From Man, Is Nourished, Is Increased, And In A Sense Grows Up On This Diet Of Knowledge, And Is More Like The Dead Than The Living If It Is Touched By No Desire For These Things.

Science Is The Process Of Thinking God's Thoughts After Him.