Phrases
01. What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
02. Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
03. Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
04. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
05. 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.
06. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
07. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
08. All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
09. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
10. Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
11. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
12. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
13. I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.
14. In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
15. If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
16. To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
17. My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
18. 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.
19. If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
20. You have to make the rules, not follow them
21. Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
22. A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.
23. No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
24. If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
25. He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
26. As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
27. The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
28. To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
29. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
30. If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it’s an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life.
31. And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen.
32. Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
33. Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
34. I do not feign hypotheses.
35. When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
36. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
37. Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
38. Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
39. Physics, beware of metaphysics.
40. Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
41. I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
42. I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
43. The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
44. If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.
45. I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
46. Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
47. My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
48. The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
49. Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
50. I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
51. Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
52. Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
53. To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
54. The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.
55. Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
56. What goes up must come down.
57. Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
58. To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
59. The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.
60. The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
61. God created everything by number, weight and measure.
62. No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.
63. Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
64. I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
65. To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me
66. We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
67. A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
68. There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
69. Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
70. It is the perfection of God’s works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
71. I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
72. Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
73. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
74. I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.