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

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

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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.

As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place.

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

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.