There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound with Sulphurous Salts, (under which I comprehend the Urinous and Volatile Salts of Animal Substances, and the Alcalisate or fixed Salts that are made by Incineration) have the virtue of Restoring it.

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.

The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it graduallly comes to be more and more unfolded, or displayed.