Quotes by Isaac Newton

About Isaac Newton:

Sir Isaac Newton is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first published in 1687, laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton made seminal contributions to optics, and he shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus.
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What goes up must come down.

Isaac Newton

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Isaac Newton

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Isaac Newton

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

Isaac Newton

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Isaac Newton

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.

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

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No old Men (excepting Dr. ) love Mathematicks.

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Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.

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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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

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Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.

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

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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. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judicious...

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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameIsaac Newton
  • DescriptionBritish physicist and founder of modern classical physics
  • AliasesNewton; Sir Isaac Newton
  • BornJanuary 4, 1643
  • DiedMarch 31, 1727
  • CountryKingdom Of England; Kingdom Of Great Britain
  • ProfessionMathematician; Physicist; Philosopher; Astronomer; Theologian; Innovator; Alchemist; Politician; Polymath