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.

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.

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.

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

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".

The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders.

I'm living the American dream.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong.

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.