Isaac Newton — "Nature is pleased with simplicity, and affects not the pomp of superfluous cause…"

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

"He that in the study of natural philosophy shall resolve to proceed upon nothing but demonstrations and sound knowledge, hath a very large field of materials of all sorts to divert and employ him."

"Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."

"The power of gravity is of such a nature as to penetrate to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force."

"Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation."