Isaac Newton Quotes - Page 3

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

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

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

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.

The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.

No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

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

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

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.