Isaac Newton Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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

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

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

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

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

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

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

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

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.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

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

What goes up must come down.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

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

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

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

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

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

The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.

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

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

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

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.

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

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

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.