Quotes by Isaac Newton

“This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess”

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

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent”

“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.”

“I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time.”

“We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.”

“Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.”

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

What goes up must come down.