Isaac Newton Quotes - Page 2

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

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

And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen.

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.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

I do not feign hypotheses.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

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

If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it's an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

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.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

What goes up must come down.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.