"The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things."
"I have often wished I could have discovered an easier and shorter way to the study of nature, which neither I nor others could have thought of before."
"Life in reality is but a motion, which conducts every thing to its death."
"The path of true knowledge is laid with iron rails on which the car of Reason is drawn by the locomotive Power of Facts."
"Memory is the treasure and guardian of all things."
