"The greatest challenges to the truth of the Holy Scriptures are not the work of infidels, but of professing Christians."

"Nature is pleased with simplicity."

"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, it is due to hard work."

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."

"The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be, first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly t…"