Isaac Newton Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

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

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

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

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

Yet one thing secures us whatever betide, the scriptures assure us that the Lord will provide.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

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

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

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

To every action, there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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

I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

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

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

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

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for anyone man or even for anyone age

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapour shining without heat.

I feign no hypotheses.

Hypotheses non-fingo. Iframe no hypotheses.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

I do not feign hypotheses.

Therefore to the same natural effects, we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.