Quotes By Isaac Newton

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

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

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, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.

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

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.