No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

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

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

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

All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.