Quotes from Sir Isaac Newton

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

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

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

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

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

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. To this purpose the philosophers say that Nature does nothing in vain, and more is in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.