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In the realms of science and philosophy, Isaac Newton contributed to reshaping the foundations of human understanding. His legacy extends far beyond his scientific accomplishments, as his keen observations and reflective musings have left an indelible mark on the tapestry of human thought.
To celebrate his mind and his intellectual evolution, we gathered most enchanting Isaac Newton quotes. His quotes touching on scientific inquiry, the mysteries of the universe, human nature, and the interplay between the empirical and the metaphysical.
Isaac Newton quotes serve as windows to a world where intellectual curiosity and relentless exploration of nature’s secrets reign supreme. From the profound to the practical, his words offer a timeless reservoir of wisdom that continues to inspire generations.
Join us as we delve into the profound observations and captivating insights of 100 Isaac Newton quotes. Gain inspiration from a true luminary, whose legacy illuminates the path of knowledge and understanding to this day.
Famous Isaac Newton quotes
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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.
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Inspirational Isaac Newton quotes
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Isaac Newton quotes about gravity
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
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Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Indeed, this force (gravity) arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act.
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By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.”
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One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.
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I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses…
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What is there in places empty of matter? And Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them?
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Isaac Newton quotes about math
…from the same principles (mathematical principles of philosophy), I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration.
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These principles (mathematical principles of philosophy) are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy.
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I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical–that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based.
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I suppose ye rarer aether within bodies & ye denser without them, not to be terminated in a mathematical superficies, but to grow gradually into one another.
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As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.
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Isaac Newton quotes about God
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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.
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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.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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.
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It is the perfection of God’s works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity.
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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.
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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.
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He who thinks half–heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Spiritual Isaac Newton quotes
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little.
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Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love and worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness and good offices towards man.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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… Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders.
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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.
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In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense.
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… God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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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.
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Isaac Newton quotes about philosophy
I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus’s business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting for what I do for my private satisfaction or leave to come out after me. For I see a man must either resolve to put out nothing new or to become a slave to defend it.
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Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers.
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There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.
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For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
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To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions.
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The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses.
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Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy.
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For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces.
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Isaac Newton quotes about nature
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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 than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world?
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Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
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The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.
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This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
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To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick?
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What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?
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Isaac Newton quotes about on science
The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
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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.
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The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
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Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever–living agent.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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.
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Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence… [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion.
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Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium?
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For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain’d by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.
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Wise Isaac Newton quotes
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.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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.
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Final thoughts
Our selection of Isaac Newton quotes highlights his insatiable curiosity and relentless pursuit of knowledge. With his remarkable ability to distill complex concepts into elegantly simple words, they continuing to shape the trajectory of philosophical contemplation.
Meaningful and insightful, Isaac Newton quotes have the power to ignite intellectual fires and fuel the spirit of discovery. Whether contemplating the forces that govern the cosmos or the intricacies of human behavior.
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