Isaac Newton Quotes

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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.

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

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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

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

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and 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.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

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

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

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

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.

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

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

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

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

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

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

What goes up must come down.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

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

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

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

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 consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

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

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

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.

Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .

When two forces unite, their efficiency double.

The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator". For “god" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body "as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants.

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