Genius is patience.
— Isaac Newton
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
What goes up must come down.
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.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
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.
