Sir Isaac Newton Quotes

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

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

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

What goes up must come down. – Isaac Newton

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

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. – Isaac Newton

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. – Isaac Newton

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. – Isaac Newton

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

Genius is patience. – Isaac Newton

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention than to any other talent. – Isaac Newton

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. – Isaac Newton

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

God created everything by weight, number, and measure. – Isaac Newton

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, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. – Isaac Newton

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. – Isaac Newton

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results. – Isaac Newton

I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. – Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. – Isaac Newton

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. – Alexander Pope

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men. – Isaac Newton

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

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, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton

Those who are occupied with the mathematical sciences especially exhibit a particular sharpness of intellect. – Isaac Newton

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

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men. – Isaac Newton

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, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. – Isaac Newton

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. – Isaac Newton

Genius is patience. – Isaac Newton

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

I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. – Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. – Isaac Newton

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

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

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

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

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

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