Sir Isaac Newton Quotes

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

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

What goes up must come down.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.

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

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

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

Nature is pleased with simplicity.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I can calculate anything using mathematics.

Genius is patience.

A fool knows everything and nothing at the same time.

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

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

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

I was like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

Sir Isaac Newton Quotes part 2

To explain all nature is to explain motion.

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

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

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity.

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

God created everything by number, weight, and measure.

Nature is pleased with simplicity.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction.

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

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

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

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

By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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

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

Genius is patience.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I can calculate anything using mathematics.

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 sea-shore, 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.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity.

To explain all nature is to explain motion.

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

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

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