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.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

'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.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.