Isaac Newton was a famous physicist, theologian and inventor born in 1642 in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Isaac Newton is considered one of the most influential scientists in history and renowned for discovering the laws of Gravity.
Check out our collection of Sir Isaac Newton’s Quotes here and discover a little more of this genius’ thoughts!
You have to make the rules, not follow them
– Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton Quotes
1. “What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” – Isaac Newton
2. “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” – Isaac Newton
3. “Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.” – Isaac Newton
4. “Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” – Isaac Newton
5. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Isaac Newton
6. “Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” – Isaac Newton
7. “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Isaac Newton
8. “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” – Isaac Newton
9. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” – Isaac Newton
10. “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” – Isaac Newton
11. “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” – Isaac Newton
12. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton
13. “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.” – Isaac Newton
14. “A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.” – Isaac Newton
15. “Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – Isaac Newton
16. “What goes up must come down.” – Isaac Newton
17. “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” – Isaac Newton
18. “If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.” – Isaac Newton
19. “To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton
20. “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.” – Isaac Newton
21. “To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.” – Isaac Newton
22. “The best way to understanding is a few good examples.” – Isaac Newton
23. “Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.” – Isaac Newton
24. “It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.” – Isaac Newton
25. “A passion for calculus can unlock new worlds.” – Isaac Newton
26. “All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.” – Isaac Newton
27. “I believe the more I study science, the more I believe in God.” – Isaac Newton
28. “The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.” – Isaac Newton
29. “To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.” – Isaac Newton
30. “My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.” – Isaac Newton
31. “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
32. “Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.” – Isaac Newton
33. “Genius is patience.” – Isaac Newton
34. “I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.” – Isaac Newton
35. “God created everything by number, weight and measure.” – Isaac Newton
36. “The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.” – Isaac Newton
37. “The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.” – Isaac Newton
38. “I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.” – Isaac Newton
39. “God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.” – Isaac Newton
40. “The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.” – Isaac Newton
