Isaac Newton

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

The true God is a living, intelligent, and powerful Being.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures, and in several proportions to space, and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the universe.

The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

What goes up must come down.

I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

The power of gravity is of a different nature from the power of magnetism.

It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

Nature is very consonant and conformable to herself.

The variety of motion which we find in the world is not to be accounted for by the laws of nature, but by the will of God.

The true method of philosophy is to derive the causes of all things from the effects.

The parts of all homogeneal hard bodies which fully touch one another, stick together very strongly.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially; for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

The world is not a machine, but a living organism.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.