Isaac Newton

The great design of the universe, and the wonderful order of the celestial bodies, could not have been produced by blind chance.

Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.

God created the world in six days, and rested on the seventh. He then created the laws of nature, and left them to operate.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but truth is a greater friend.

This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets, could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

For it became him who created all things to set them in order. And if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of chaos by the mere laws of nature.

God manages all things and knows all things that are or can be done.

The true way of discovery is to begin with the phenomena and thence to deduce the general principles.

I consider the heavens, and the earth, and all things in them, as the work of a most wise and powerful Being.

Therefore, to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.

In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur, by which they may either be made more accurate, or liable to exceptions.

He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity; he governs all things, and knows all things that are or can be done.

And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearances of things, does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy.

Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another, and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition?

The rays of light are very small bodies projected from the luminous body.

It seems probable to me, that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.

I have studied these things, and I have found them to be true.