Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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.
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists?