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

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.

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.

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

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

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

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