Isaac Newton famous quotes

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

#Life #Wall #Inspiration

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

#Gravity #Planets

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

#Beautiful #God #Powerful

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

#Wise #Skills #Medicine

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

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Nature

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

#Math #Confusion #Simplicity

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

#Beach #Children #Lying

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

#Truth #Plato

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

#Thumbs #Absence #Proof

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

#Distance #Light #Interesting

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

#Believe #Thinking #Half

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

#Bible #Atheism #Fundamentals

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
-- Isaac Newton

#Philosophy #Sublime #Scripture

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

#Thinking #Results

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.
-- Isaac Newton

#Change #Moving #Science

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

#Positive #Wisdom #Art

OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.
-- Isaac Newton

#Men #Attention #Body

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

#Inspirational #Teamwork #Humility

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

#Biblical #Science #Authenticity

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

#Math #Numbers #Weight

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
-- Isaac Newton

#Powerful #Science #Skills

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
-- Isaac Newton

#Hard Work #Doubt #Made

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
-- Isaac Newton

#Conjecture #Certainty

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
-- Isaac Newton

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

#Numbers #Judging #Weight

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

#Patience #Science #Thinking

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

#Inspiration #Discovery #Made

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
-- Isaac Newton

#Philosophy #Men

The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
-- Isaac Newton

#Light #Body #Transmutation

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

#Thinking #Law #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

#Circles #Doe #Lines

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

#Science #Causes #Appearance

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
-- Isaac Newton

#Ocean

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

#Art #Errors

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
-- Isaac Newton

#Inspirational #Live Your Life #Explanation

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

#Inspirational #Success #Uplifting

You have to make the rules, not follow them
-- Isaac Newton

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

#Funny #People #Insanity

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

#Action #Reactions #Equal

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, 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

#Ideas #Diversity #Atheism

Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.
-- Isaac Newton

#Light #Body #May