Isaac Newton Quotes

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

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."

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

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

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

"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."

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

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

"What goes up must come down."

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

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

"Genius is patience."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn."

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

"I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business."

"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."

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

"We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy."

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

"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history."