It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; becau….

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence..

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy..

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks..

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat..

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers..

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Co….

What goes up must come down..

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now ….

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of tru….

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess..

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

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion..

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible..

What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness….

This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a de….

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the….

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

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth..