"The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos could only have emerged from the plan of an omniscient and omnipotent Being."

"For if the experiments which I relate be accurate, the science of colours will be a new one; for although colours have been observed from antiquity, yet the cause of their productions has remained unk…"

"The whole difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this—from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena."

"The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some employment, or by reading, or by meditating on other things."

"Nothing can be divided into fewer parts than it hath."