When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an Eye upon such Principles as might work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose, But if I have done the Public any Service this way, it is due to nothing but Industry and patient Thought

(Newton, Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley. Containing some Arguments in Proof of a Deity)

Sir Isaac Newton, to one who complimented him upon the force of genius, which had made such improvements in mathematics and natural philosophy, is said to have made this reply, which was both modest and judicious, That, if he had made any improvements in those sciences, it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent

(Reid, Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind)