45 Insightful Quotes By Sir Isaac Newton, One Of The Greatest Scientists Of All Time
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
And to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
What goes up must come down.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
You have to make the rules, not follow them
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
I have studied these things - you have not.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.
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They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.
