"Ignorance of causes, makes men apt to attribute every event to some immediate invisible agent."

"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed, are but theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."

"For seeing life is but a motion of limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all automata (engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a wa…"

"For what is there in the world that is not subject to change?"

"For every man is desirous of what is good for himself, and shuns what is evil for himself; but there is no man so good, but that he is ready to take what he can get, and to hold what he hath."