“The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

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.

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

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.

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.

A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.

The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

We let the fear of discovery stop us from doing what is right.

One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.