Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

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

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

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

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.