"Nature is pleased with simplicity."

"God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially; for virtue cannot subsist without substance."

"Gravity must be caused by some agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."

"God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced…"

"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."