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

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

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

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

... 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..

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air..

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

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him..

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….

But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents in….

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance..

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying..

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry..

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

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature..

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

I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body….