“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.”

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.

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.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself.

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.

The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.