OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

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.