"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."

"It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity."

"The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent."

"God created everything by number, weight and measure."

"For the best and safest way of philosophizing seems to be, first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and of establishing them by experiment, and then to proceed more slowly to hypothe…"