"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…"

"I consider the world as a stage, and the actions of men as a play, in which every one acts a part."

"For the conservation of motion, it is necessary that the body should be moved in a vacuum."

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

"Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes."