Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

Isaac Newton

Power Age Without

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

Inspirational Up Than

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 seashore, 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.

Isaac Newton

Truth Trust Great

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

Walls Wall Too

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

Isaac Newton

T People Motion

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

Isaac Newton

Success Power T

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Isaac Newton

Best of Fame Ways Way

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

Art T Ice

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.

Isaac Newton

Chance Art UN

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

Isaac Newton

Art Without Wit

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Isaac Newton

God Alone Would

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

Truth Great Test

What goes up must come down.

Isaac Newton

Us Up T

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

Isaac Newton

Science Art Wit

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

Isaac Newton

Truth Us UN

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

Power UN Tell

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Isaac Newton

Up Unless UN

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Isaac Newton

God Wise Which

Genius is patience.

Isaac Newton

Patience Us Tie

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.

Isaac Newton

Imagination Understanding Understand

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Isaac Newton

Men God Written

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

Isaac Newton

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 seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

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 you.

Isaac Newton

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

Isaac Newton

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Isaac Newton

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

Isaac Newton

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'

Isaac Newton

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

Isaac Newton

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

Isaac Newton

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

Isaac Newton

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

Isaac Newton

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Isaac Newton

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

Isaac Newton

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

Isaac Newton

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

Isaac Newton

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

Isaac Newton

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

Isaac Newton

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Isaac Newton

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Isaac Newton

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Isaac Newton

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

Isaac Newton

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

Isaac Newton

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Isaac Newton

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Isaac Newton

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Isaac Newton

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Isaac Newton