Isaac 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.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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.

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.

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

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.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

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.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

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

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

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.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

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

While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.