I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions.

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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.