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

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.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.

Keep moving. It’s hard for old age to hit a moving target.

The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are ‘age appropriate.’ For me that would be a shroud.

Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

I don’t want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, ‘Oh I love that song; he’s really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.’

Sometimes I feel like a complete kid when I’m running around with my friends being stupid for a week, and then sometimes I just want to sit in my house and sip tea and watch old movies like I’m 60.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

I’m going to have wrinkles really soon.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.