Sir Isaac Newton
» Creation » “This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”
» Hard Work » “If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.”
» Imagination » “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.”
» Inertia » “Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.”
» Light » “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.”
» Patience » “If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.”
» Preachers and Preaching » “The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.”
» Science and Scientists » “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.”
» Security » “Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.”
» Thoughts and Thinking » “If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”
» Vision » “If I have seen further… it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
