'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.

No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

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

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.