"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

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

"Nothing can be divided into fewer parts than it hath."

"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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier sh…"

"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…"