"I have often thought that the world is like a great clock, made by a most skillful workman, and that all the parts of it are so exactly fitted to one another, that they all conspire to produce the sam…"

"I would rather be thought a good experimenter than a subtle reasoner."

"I have always endeavored to be a faithful interpreter of nature, and not a presumptuous dictator."

"The blood of a living creature is a most elaborate and curiously contrived liquor."

"The corpuscular philosophy is the most intelligible of all."