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

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

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

—Isaac Newton

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

—Isaac Newton

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

—Isaac Newton

If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

—Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.

—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

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

—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

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

—Isaac Newton

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

—Isaac Newton

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

—Isaac Newton

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

—Isaac Newton

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

—Isaac Newton

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

—Isaac Newton

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

—Isaac Newton

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.

—Isaac Newton

What goes up must come down.

—Isaac Newton

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

—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

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

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

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

—Isaac Newton

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.

—Isaac Newton

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

—Isaac Newton

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

—Isaac Newton

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

—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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

—Isaac Newton