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.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

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

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.