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

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

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

I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.

We hold that happenings which may even compel the heart to break cannot break the human spirit, or rob it of its most essential qualities.

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.

As a man believes, so he will act.