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

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.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

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

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.

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

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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

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 shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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

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

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

What goes up must come down.

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

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

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

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

Genius is patience.

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

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.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

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

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.

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

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

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

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

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

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