If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit Light so copiously, as by the Emission and Re-action of its Light, and the Reflexions and Refractions of its Rays within its Pores to grow still hotter, till it comes to a certain period of heat, such as is that of the Sun?

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?