God created everything by number, weight and measure..

To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things ….

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt….

All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree..

A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall dow….

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted a….

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reas….

Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment an….

You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not ….

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense..

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

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….

What goes up must come down..

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat..