Isaac Newton — "Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors."

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

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

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

"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 do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier sh…"