Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done.

I built my first telescope in 1668, and it was about six inches long, and magnified about forty times.

I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

My design in this book is not to explain the properties of light by hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by reason and experiment.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

The world is a machine, and the laws of nature are the laws of God.

Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

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

I consider the heavens as a kind of laboratory, and the stars as so many furnaces, in which the Creator is continually at work.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

I have studied these things, and I have found that the Bible is true.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

I was born in the year 1642, on Christmas Day, in the parish of Colsterworth, in the county of Lincoln.

The most beautiful order of the planets and comets could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

I have made a discovery of the utmost importance to the world.

I have laid down the principles of philosophy, not those of physics.

The world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

The great design of the universe is to show forth the glory of God.