Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.