20 Isaac Newton Quotes

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

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

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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

If I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient attention than to anything beside.

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

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.