“I feign no hypotheses.”

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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 do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced.

But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis…

The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten.

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.

We know that communism is the right hypothesis.

But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’

All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.