"It is not the business of philosophy to account for the truth of things by hypotheses, but to deduce them from phenomena."

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

"Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless."

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

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