Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time..

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work..

All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree..

The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our….

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense..

An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion..

In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense G….

Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right sid….

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….

One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Diffe….

You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not ….

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results..

A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall dow….

God created everything by number, weight and measure..

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If be….

Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Chri….

Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodie….

Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and L….

It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore a….