Isaac Newton Quotes

A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he kn...

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

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy play...

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait '...

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do...

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain ficti...

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy play...

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

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

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It ...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

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

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations int...

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

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such s...

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into ...

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy pla...

Genius is patience.

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

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

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by ...

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

What goes up must come down.

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for...

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of ...

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giant...

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true moti...

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and d...

God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other pri...

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no v...

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their severa...

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to descri...

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from...

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spirit...

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to an...

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other ...