Isaac Newton

"Light is the most important thing in nature."

"If I wished to be the first to reap the harvest, I must be first to plant the seed."

"You must be able to grow and be continually improving yourself, not resting on past laurels."

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."

"I am not afraid of hard work."

"Blessed are they who have found their work."

"Systems are better than rules."

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true."

"As a man thinketh, so he is."

"The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success."

"I was standing on the shoulders of giants."

"Unknown to history, unseen, and unremembered by the world."

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go."

"The same laws which govern the planets govern the smallest particle."

"Everything that is possible in nature is possible in knowledge."

"The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses."

"All that matters is that atoms and the void."

"I do not feign hypotheses."

"There is no question but a man may be so occupied in the search for truth as to forget to be kind."

"Absolute time flows without relation to anything external."

"The best way to think about the problem is to think like a child."

"There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth."

"To query reality, you must ask the right questions."

"I have worked hard to overcome the effects of my childhood experiences."

"Observation is the most important tool of the scientist."

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear."

"The goal of all science is the honor of the human intellect."

"In the presence of eternity, the mountains crumble to dust."

"Questions are more precious than answers."

"A hypothesis supported by enough evidence becomes law."