In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has chosen the most perfect, that is to say, the one which is at the same time the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.
Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.
Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.