"Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention."

"There are many interesting phenomena … which involve a mixture of physical phenomena and physiological processes, and the full appreciation of natural phenomena, as we see them, must go beyond physics…"

"That the atmosphere attracts to itself, like a lodestone, all the images of the objects that exist in it, and not their forms merely but their nature may be clearly seen by the sun, which is a hot and…"

"The human brain became large by natural selection . Yet surely most “things” now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing powe…"

"In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to produce; and in the mechanism of a plant, or animal body, admire how every thing…"