It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most like….

Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that abound ….

He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith..

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with ….

God would not have made the universe as it is unless He intended us to understand it..

He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there..

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer..

... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed..

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought..

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe..

That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which I mean is this: That our ….

The inspired and expired air may be sometimes very useful, by condensing and cooling the blood that passeth through the lungs; I hold that the depura….

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of ….

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and t….

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion..

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of mans redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation..

And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores….

If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies volatile, and volatil….

As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light ….

And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a ….

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes..