“No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.”

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.

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.

It is the limited identities of race, religion, and nationality that breed conflict and violence.

As a Christian, I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.

Islam, in the year 1978, was not the opium of the people precisely because it was the spirit of a world without spirit.