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The world is my country, science is my religion.

I do not mind at all that [Newton] is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

The world is my country. Science my religion.

It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.