Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.

My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.

...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.