Quotes from Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.

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

Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.

This most beautiful system -- The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

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

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

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.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God ??????????? or Universal Ruler.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

What goes up must come down.

and to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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.

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

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

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...?

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.