Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

He who thinks little errs much.