No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

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.

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

'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.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me