To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.