If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

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.

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.

I love to entertain. And I love the sound of people enjoying themselves.

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.