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

"For it is the property of true philosophy to deduce the causes of all natural effects from the simplest possible principles."

"I consider the world as a stage, and the actions of men as a play, in which every one acts a part."

"I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all."

"The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn."