Isaac Newton Quotes

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Isaac Newton

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

Isaac Newton

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Isaac Newton

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Isaac Newton

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

Isaac Newton

You have to make the rules, not follow them

Isaac Newton

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Isaac Newton

No old Men excepting Dr. Wallis love Mathematics.

Isaac Newton

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

Isaac Newton

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

Isaac Newton

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

Let me think I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

Isaac Newton

Live your life as an exclamation rather than an Explanation

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of Gods existence.

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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, By thinking about it all the time.

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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

Isaac Newton

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton