A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.

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

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.