Isaac Newton

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

Discovery Patience Talent

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

Authenticity Bible History

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

Beliefs Faith Philosophy

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

Achievements Honor Inspiration

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

Divine Opinions Philosophy

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

Clarity Focus Sensibility

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Art Craftsmanship Mistakes

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

Improvement Motivational Success

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Empiricism Nature Reason

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.

Philosophy Religion Science

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

Bible Faith Inspiration

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

Patience

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.

Curiosity Humility Philosophy

Genius is patience.

Inspiration Motivational Perseverance

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. It is much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Collaboration Humility Knowledge

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

Friendship Philosophy Truth

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

Communication Conflict Diplomacy

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

Gratitude Inspiration Knowledge