“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”

“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent”

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”

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

“How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?”

“Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”