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

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

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

You have to make the rules, not follow them

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.