Quotes by Isaac Newton

“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 prettie...”

“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.”

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

“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 ...”

“Talent was not rare”

“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”

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

“What goes up must come down.”

“How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?....”

“Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times an...”

“eorum omnium actiones in se invicem”

“If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants”

“A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. W...”

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age”

“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”

“God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduc...”