Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself..

Physics, beware of metaphysics..

You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not ….

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date..

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily..

I feign no hypotheses..

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses..

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances..

Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore ….

Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall uses. You may ferment them….

The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the t….

I do not feign hypotheses..

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties,….

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded..

The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. T….

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demons….

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intellige….

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people..

Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once move….

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best wh….

The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished,….