"The parts of all homogeneal hard bodies which fully touch one another, stick together with a very strong attraction."

"The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

"I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses."

"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

"I was like a boy playing on the seashore."