Isaac Newton Quotes

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

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

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

I do not feign hypotheses.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

Hypotheses non-fingo. Iframe no hypotheses.

I feign no hypotheses.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapour shining without heat.

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

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

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

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

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

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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

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

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

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy.

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

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

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

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

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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