Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. Profoundly inspirational Isaac Newton quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
Famous Isaac Newton Quotes
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
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. Isaac Newton
We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Isaac Newton
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. Isaac Newton
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. Isaac Newton
What goes up must come down. Isaac Newton
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean. Isaac Newton
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. Isaac Newton
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. Isaac Newton
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. Isaac Newton
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. Isaac Newton
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true. Isaac Newton
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. 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
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
What goes up must come down. Isaac Newton
Christ comes as a thief in the night, it is not for us to know the times seasons which God hath put into his own breast. Isaac Newton
And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction. Isaac Newton
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
He who thinks half heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. Isaac Newton
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. Isaac Newton
You have to make the rules, not follow them. Isaac Newton
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. Isaac Newton
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
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. Isaac Newton
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton
The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit. Isaac Newton
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. Isaac Newton
In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series. Isaac Newton
How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?
Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent. 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
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them. 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 leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. Isaac Newton
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. Isaac Newton
God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing. Isaac Newton
The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. Isaac Newton
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world? Isaac Newton
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Isaac Newton
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. Isaac Newton
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. Issac Newton
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence. Isaac Newton
Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts. Isaac Newton
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. Isaac Newton
I have studied these things you have not. Isaac Newton
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
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide. Isaac Newton
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. Isaac Newton
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. Isaac Newton
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space. Isaac Newton
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light. Isaac Newton
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. Isaac Newton
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence. Isaac Newton
The centre of the system of the world is immovable. Isaac Newton
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book. Isaac Newton
God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them. Isaac Newton
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. 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 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
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. 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 leave the rest for others that come after you. Isaac Newton
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results. Isaac Newton
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. Isaac Newton
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. Isaac Newton
The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun. Isaac Newton
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Isaac Newton
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
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. Isaac Newton
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Isaac Newton
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
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself. Isaac Newton
If I have done great things it’s because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own. Isaac Newton
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
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
The word God usually signifies Lord, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God. Isaac Newton
The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One. Isaac Newton
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. Isaac Newton
Tis much better to do a little with certainty leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. Issac Newton
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
Genius is patience. Isaac Newton
What we know is a drop. What we don’t know is an ocean. Isaac Newton
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
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
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Isaac Newton
That one body should act upon another through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else is so great an absurdity that no man suited to do science can ever fall into it Gravity must be caused by an agent but whether that agent be material or immaterial I leave to my readers. Isaac Newton
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
For it became him God who created them the atoms to set them in order. And if he did so, it’s unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature. Isaac Newton
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
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
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
This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. Isaac Newton
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
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever. Isaac Newton
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
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centers of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One. Isaac Newton
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments. 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
Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors. Isaac Newton
If I have come further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Issac Newton
