The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

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

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

What goes up must come down.