350+ Isaac Newton Quotes that Motivate & Amaze

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

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

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

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

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.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Genius is patience.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Nature is pleased with simplicity.

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

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

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.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

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

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

A passion for calculus can unlock new worlds.

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

What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

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

As a blind man has no idea of colours, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

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

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.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.

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

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.

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

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

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

You have to make the rules, not follow them

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

What goes up must come down.

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

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

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

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

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

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

What goes up must come down.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

I believe the more I study science, the more I believe in God.

An object that is at rest will tend to remain at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.

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

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

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

Yet one thing secures us whatever betide, the scriptures assure us that the Lord will provide.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.”

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

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

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

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

To myself, I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

An object that is at rest will tend to remain at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.

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.

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

Yet one thing secures us whatever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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

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.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.

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.

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.

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

I will not define time, space, place and motion, as being well known to all.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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

I feign no hypotheses.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

I have studied these things – you have not.

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

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

To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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.