If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
What goes up must come down.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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.
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
Genius is patience.
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.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
