Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

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

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.