“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”

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.

Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.

Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Poetically dwells man upon this earth.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut.

Nature is the art of God.