The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.