37 Famous Quotes from Isaac Newton

1. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” 

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

3. “Inherent force of matter is the power of resisting by which everybody, so far as it is able, perseveres in its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.”

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

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

6. ” 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.”

7. ” It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.”

8. “Don’t doubt the Creator because it is inconceivable that accidents alone could be the controller of this universe.”

9. ” Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts. “

10. ” Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world? “

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

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

13. “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

14. ” You have to make the rules, not follow them.”

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

16. ” 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.”

17. ” Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”

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

19. ” No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”

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

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

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

23. ” What goes up must come down.”

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

25. “A passion for calculus can unlock new worlds.”

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

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

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

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

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

31. “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.”

32. “God created everything by number, weight, and measure.”

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

34. ” Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.”

35. ” 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. “

36. “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.”

37. “My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”