Quotes by Isaac Newton

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

“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”

“My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”

“For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.”

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

“For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.”

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

“If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

“God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this ma...”

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

“We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be sim...”

“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 ...”

“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?....”

“Talent was not rare”

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

“Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas”

“The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish these properties by experiment, and then to proceed more slowly...”

“If you ask where this heavenly city is, I answer, I do not know. It becomes not a blind Man to talk of colours. ...But this I say that as Fishes in water ascend & descend, move whether they will & ...”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.”

“I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and...”