Isaac Newton

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

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.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!

Oh, Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest what mischief thou hast done!

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

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, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

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, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Can it be by accident that all birds beasts and men have their right side and left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) and just two eyes and no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head and a nose with two holes and no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose and either two fore leggs or two wings or two arms on the sholders & two leggs on the hipps one on either side & no more?

Can it be by accident that all birds beasts and men have their right side and left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) and just two eyes and no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head and a nose with two holes and no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose and either two fore leggs or two wings or two arms on the sholders & two leggs on the hipps one on either side & no more?

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but truth is more my friend.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I built my first telescope with my own hands.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

Hypotheses non fingo. (I frame no hypotheses.)