Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Order is heaven's first law.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

This long disease, my life.

First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!