38 Isaac Newton Quotes About Life, Science, Nature, Love and God
Sir Isaac Newton PRS (born 4 January 1643, Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, England – died 31 March 1727, Kensington, Middlesex, Great Britain) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher"). He was a key figure in the philosophical revolution known as the Enlightenment. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, established classical mechanics. In mechanics, his three laws of motion, the basic principles of modern physics, resulted in the formulation of the law of universal gravitation. In mathematics, he was the original discoverer of the infinitesimal calculus.
Top 15 Famous Sir Isaac Newton Quotes
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.We build too many walls and not enough bridges.For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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 sea-shore, 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.
Isaac Newton
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.
13 Wise Sir Isaac Newton Quotes About Life and Nature
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.An object that is at rest will tend to remain at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to remain in motion unless acted upon by an outside force.You have to make the rules, not follow them.Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.What goes up must come down.Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.Don’t doubt the Creator because it is inconceivable that accidents alone could be the controller of this universe.I have studied these things - you have not.
10 Sir Isaac Newton Quotes About God
I believe the more I study science, the more I believe in God.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.Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.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.God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.
