Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

Nature itself cannot err

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

The reputation of power IS power.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

Curiosity draws a man from consideration of the effect, to seek the cause.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.