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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
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.
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
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.
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
You have to make the rules, not follow them
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.