As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

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

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

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

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.