“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.

What goes up must come down.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

We are much like the nights sky, the big things draw our attention. But its the little things that really light us up.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.

Sometimes it’s the people who have the most baggage that become the most attentive and committed partners.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.