In this post, we’ll read Isaac Newton quotes who was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists in history.
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) laid the foundation for modern physics and mathematics. He revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.
He is best known for his law of universal gravitation and three laws of motion, known as the ‘Newton’s Laws of Motion’.
Newton conducted extensive experiments on optics and light, leading to his development of the theory of colors. He invented the first practical reflecting telescope, known as the Newtonian telescope. He also independently invented calculus, a branch of mathematics.
He was a devout Christian and believed in the existence of God. He was also a student of philosophy.
Let’s read some of the most famous Isaac Newton quotes about science, gravity, success and more.
Isaac Newton Quotes
1. “To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.”
2. “I feign no hypotheses.”
3. “I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.”
4. “Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.”
5. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
6. “I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy.”
7. “I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.”
8. “I have studied these things – you have not.”
Famous Isaac Newton Quotes
1. “Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
2. “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
3. “It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”
4. “Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.”
5. “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
6. “What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.”
7. “Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
8. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
9. “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
10. “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton Quotes About God
1. “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.”
2. “I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.”
3. “God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.”
4. “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
5. “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.”
6. “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.’”
7. “Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.”
8. “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 Quotes About Gravity
1. “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
2. “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.”
3. “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 Quotes About Success
1. “My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”
2. “If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”
3. “If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.”
4. “If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.”
5. “No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
6. “The best way to understand is a few good examples.”
Isaac Newton Quotes About Truth
1. “To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.”
2. “Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.”
3. “Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.”
4. “A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”
Isaac Newton Quotes About Science
1. “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.”
2. “All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.”
3. “Is not fire a body heated so hot as to emit light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than fire? And what else is burning coal than red hot wood?”
4. “When two forces unite, their efficiency double.”
5. “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.”
6. “What goes up must come down.”
7. “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.
8. “God created everything by number, weight and measure.”
These Isaac Newton quotes reflect his ideas and shed light on his lasting impact on science, mathematics, and philosophy which shaped the course of modern scientific knowledge.
He was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705 and lived the latter part of his life in relative seclusion.
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