Isaac Newton

What goes up must come down.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

I build my philosophy upon the shoulders of giants.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

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

I consider the world as a stage, and the actions of men as a play, in which every one acts a part.

As a blind man has no idea of colours, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, it is due to hard work.

The causes of gravity are not yet discovered. It is by experiments and observations that we are to know them.

For the best and safest way of philosophizing seems to be, first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and of establishing them by experiment, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially; for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

What is it that induces a man to be a philosopher? It is not the love of truth, but the love of fame, or the love of novelty, or the love of power.

I was born in the year of the comet.