This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

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

What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.