God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of….

Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor even punish her. She knew not what she w….

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success..

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in O….

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God..

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation..

In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, b….

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities und….

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me..

And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremel….

The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be r….

[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & i….

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants..

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their ….

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

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….

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer..

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding….

Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and the Heathen….

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….

When two forces unite, their efficiency double..