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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

If I had seen further than others, it's because I stood upon the shoulders of giants.

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

I do not feign hypotheses.

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, By thinking about it all the time.

All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

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

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

I have studied these things - you have not.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.

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

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

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

From the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Let me think ... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

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

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

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

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

Genius is patience.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

F I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.

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

The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

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

What goes up must come down.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.

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

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar
results.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross roads.

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

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

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

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