“The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.”

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

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

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

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.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.