Isaac Newton Quotes

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

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

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

"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess"

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

"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."

"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

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

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree."

"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."

"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."