To Myself I Am Only A Child

The Main Business Of Natural Philosophy Is To Argue From Phænomena Without Feigning Hypotheses, And To Deduce Causes From Effects Till We Come To The Very First Cause, Which Certainly Is Not Mechanical; And Not Only To Unfold The Mechanism Of The World, But Chiefly To Resolve These, And To Such Like Questions.

Atheism Is So Senseless. When I Look At The Solar System, I See The Earth At The Right Distance From The Sun To Receive The Proper Amounts Of Heat And Light. This Did Not Happen By Chance.

You Have To Make The Rules, Not Follow Them

Are Not All Hypotheses Erroneous, In Which Light Is Supposed To Consist In Pression Or Motion, Propagated Through A Fluid Medium? For In All These Hypotheses The Phaenomena Of Light Have Been Hitherto Explain'd By Supposing That They Arise From New Modifications Of The Rays; Which Is An Erroneous Supposition.

You Sometimes Speak Of Gravity As Essential And Inherent To Matter. Pray Do Not Ascribe That Notion To Me, For The Cause Of Gravity Is What I Do Not Pretend To Know, And Therefore Would Take More Time To Consider Of It.