If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything.

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

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.

The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.