Isaac Newton — "The parts of all homogeneal hard bodies which fully touch one another, stick tog…"

"God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced…"

"As a blind man has no idea of colours, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things."

"God created everything by number, weight and measure."

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

"The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of nature, which seems delighted with transmutations."