Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.
God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.
The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
The word ‘God’ usually signifies ‘Lord’, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.