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

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

What goes up must come down.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

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.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.