Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

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

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air.

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

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.

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.