The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

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