"To believe in God, is to believe that there is a God; that is to say, to assent to this proposition, that God is. Not that I understand what God is, but that I believe that he is; and therefore, that …"

"The source of all superstition is ignorance of natural causes."

"During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called War; and such a war, as is of every man, against every man."

"For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a wa…"

"And consequently, the knowledge of the consequences of words, is called SCIENCE. And though a man should now and then have the good fortune to get any thing by conjecture, without reasoning; yet becau…"