“I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.”

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.

Genius is patience.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

I’ve only had two rules. Do all you can and do it the best you can. It’s the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.

When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

There is absolutely nothing special about walking on a rope stretched along the ground. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in a deed accomplished, and therefore no happiness.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.