If I have seen further it is by standing on 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 sea-shore, 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.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of 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.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.