Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. This Isaac Newton quotes on education, gravity will motivate you.
Best Isaac Newton Quotes
- “What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation” ~ Isaac Newton, Isaac Newton quotes on life
- “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “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.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” ~ Isaac Newton
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“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” ~ Isaac Newton, Isaac Newton quotes on gravity
- “A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.” ~ Isaac Newton
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“To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God, but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “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.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “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.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Physics, beware of metaphysics.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.” ~ Isaac Newton
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“What goes up must come down.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is the truth.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “God created everything by number, weight, and measure.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “When two forces unite, their efficiency double.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.” ~ Isaac Newton
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“You have to make the rules, not follow them.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “It is the perfection of God’s works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and the body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.” ~ Isaac Newton
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“I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “To myself, I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me” ~ Isaac Newton
- “It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness, they have not only exposed themselves but brought the Prophecy also into contempt.
The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify men’s curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.” ~ Isaac Newton
