Isaac Newton Quotes

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?

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

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants

Talent was not rare

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

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.

For five years Isaac had been working eighteen hours a day.

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

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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.

Genius is patience.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

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