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

Enough, Bridges, Walls, 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, Giants, Shoulders

Genius is patience. - Isaac Newton

Genius is patience. Isaac Newton

Patience, Genius

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, Only, Ordinary, Application

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

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

Alone, God, Me, Existence, Absence

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

Truth, Great, Ocean, Myself, World, Me

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, Madness, I Can, Motion, Bodies

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, Tact, Making

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

Truth, Simplicity, Truth Is, Confusion

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What goes up must come down. - Isaac Newton

What goes up must come down. Isaac Newton

Down, Up, Come, Must, Goes

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

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, Look, Earth, Heat

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

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

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, Men, King, Law, Free, Land

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 & leave the rest for others that come after you. Isaac Newton

Nature, Age, Man, Rest, Better, You

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, Never, Without

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

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions. Isaac Newton

Time, Look, Philosophy, True, May, More

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

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. Isaac Newton

Truth, Great, Trust, Ocean, Myself, Me

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

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

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Isaac Newton

Sea, Gravity, Force, Explained, Our

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. Isaac Newton

Best, More, First, Things, Seems, Slowly

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so. Isaac Newton

Rest, Resistance, Motion, Always, Only

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