"For if the experiments which I relate be accurate, the science of colours will be a new one; for although colours have been observed from antiquity, yet the cause of their productions has remained unk…"

"Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!"

"It seems probable to me, that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles..."

"The best way to understand is by examples."

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