Isaac Newton Quotes


19 quotes:

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes
"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."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: Nature Quotes
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes
"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."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes Falsehood Quotes
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes Madness Quotes
"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes
"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes Service Quotes
"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes
"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes Honor Quotes
"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."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes
"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess"
Author: Newton Quotes Category: Discovery Quotes
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: Funny Quotes Love Quotes
"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: Creation Quotes
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: Courage Quotes English Mathematician Quotes
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes Collaboration Quotes
"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."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: Christian Quotes
"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes Causes Quotes
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: English Mathematician Quotes Bridge Quotes
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
Author: Newton Quotes Category: Action Quotes English Mathematician Quotes

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