Isaac Newton

"The laws of physics are the laws of God."

"Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution."

"Dedication to one's work is the foundation of all achievement."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"Knowledge is power, but only when applied with wisdom."

"The greatest journey is the journey within."

"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."

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion."

"The errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

"I have stood on the shoulders of giants."

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

"The greatest precision of speech is useful to agree and determine controversies, which arise from ambiguous and equivocal use of words."

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

"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."

"All that we know is nothing in comparison with what remains unknown."

"To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore."

"The way to do is to be."

"God is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient."

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

"This most beautiful system could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful being."

"Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors."

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."

"The light of nature, the voice of reason, the dictates of conscience—all speak in favor of our Maker."

"Opposites attract and similars repel."

"True humility and fear of God are the foundation of all other virtues."

"If others would think as hard as I have thought, they would get similar results."

"The method of fluxions is the general key by which all the abstruse problems may be unlocked."

"What is the cause of all motion? And what rules its continuity?"

"Knowledge is power, but only when properly applied."