Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on which experiments can be made should be taken as qualities of all bodies universally.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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