"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy"
- Isaac Newton
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier s..."
"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
"This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers aga..."
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
"What goes up must come down."
"How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...a..."