Isaac Newton

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

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

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

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless.

The best way to understand is by examples.

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

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I feign no hypotheses.

The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature.

God is the same God, always and everywhere.

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.

I was like a boy playing on the seashore.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be, first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Nature is pleased with simplicity.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some employment, or by reading, or by meditating on other things.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

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.