Isaac Newton Quotes

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges. - Isaac Newton

We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Isaac Newton

Walls, Enough, Bridges, Build, Many, Too

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

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

Inspirational, Others, Standing, Giants

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. - Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. Isaac Newton

Action, Brainy, Equal, Reaction, Always

Genius is patience. - Isaac Newton

Genius is patience. Isaac Newton

Patience, Genius

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

Truth, Truth Is, Simplicity, Confusion

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. Isaac Newton

Great, Truth, Myself, Ocean, Me, World

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. - Isaac Newton

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

Success, Me, Ordinary, Only, Application

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

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

God, Alone, Me, Absence, Existence

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

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

People, I Can, Madness, Motion, Heavenly

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

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

Art, Enemy, Without, Point, Making, Tact

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

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

Patience, Service, Thought, Done, Public

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. Isaac Newton

Light, Sun, Chance, Earth, Distance, See

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. - Isaac Newton

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

Friend, Truth, Greatest, My Friend

What goes up must come down. - Isaac Newton

What goes up must come down. Isaac Newton

Down, Up, Come, Must, Goes

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. - Isaac Newton

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. Isaac Newton

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.' Isaac Newton

Life, God, Universe, Happen, Only, Order

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance. Isaac Newton

God, Virtue, Same, Always, Without, Only

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent. Isaac Newton

Power, I Am, Sun, Frame, Gravity, Never

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. Isaac Newton

Faith, King, Men, Law, Free, Obedience

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. Isaac Newton

Man, Imagination, Understanding, True

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. Isaac Newton

God, Man, Colors, Blind, Things, Idea

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

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

Numbers, Experiments, Weight, Regarded

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

Beautiful, Sun, Powerful, Intelligent

It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies. Isaac Newton

Nature, Matter, Depend, Quantity, Forces

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

God, Daily, Bible, Belief, Study, Who

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change. Isaac Newton

Change, Time, Progress, True, May, Thing

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