Isaac Newton Quotes

English - Mathematician December 25, 1642 - March 20, 1727 Read full biography

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

Truth Simplicity Truth Is Things

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 now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Myself Me Great Truth

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

Inspirational Others Standing Seen

Genius is patience.

Patience Genius

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Enough Walls Bridges Build

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Brainy Action Always Equal Reaction

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

God Alone Me Existence

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

Friend Truth Greatest My Friend

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

Art Enemy Without Point Making

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

Success Me Only Ordinary

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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

Light Sun Look Chance

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

People I Can Madness Motion Heavenly

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Love God Parents World

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Beautiful Sun Powerful Only

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Uniform Earth Go Gravity

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

Sun Gravity Just Force

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

God Man Colors Blind

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Faith Men King Law

What goes up must come down.

Down Come Up Must Goes

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Numbers Experiments Weight Regarded

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Man Imagination Understanding True

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.

Myself Me Great Trust

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

God Respect Soul World

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Force Outside Line Motion

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

Things After Experiments Them

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