The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.