Isaac Newton Quotes: 16

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

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

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

• If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

  The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton

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

• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in 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.

• Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

• 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.

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

  The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

• What goes up must come down.

• How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?

  Opticks

• Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

  The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

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

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