Here are 30 Isaac Newton Quotes That Inspired People. Sorted from where it was said:
- “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” – Letter to Robert Hooke, 1675
- “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” – Attributed, after the South Sea Bubble financial crisis. 1720
- “What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” – Attributed, 1704
- “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” – “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” (Principia), 1687
- “Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” – Attributed, 1715
- “A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.” – “Opticks”, 1704
- “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – “Opticks”, 1704
- “Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.” – Attributed, 1727
- “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – “Opticks”, 1704
- “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.” – Attributed, 1727
- “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Attributed, 1727
- “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” – Attributed, 1727
- “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” – Attributed, 1675
- “I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me and wait till the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” – “Opticks”. 1704
- “To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.” – “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” (Principia), 1687
- “Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” – Attributed, 1690
- “Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.” – “Opticks”, 1704
- “What goes up come down.” – Attributed, 1687
- “To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.” – Attributed, 1727
- “If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.” -Attributed, 1675
- “My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.” – Attributed, 1704
- “If I have every made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.” – Attributed, 1675
- “To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.” – “Opticks”, 1704
- “To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.” – Attributed, 1704
- “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – “Opticks”, 1704
- “I was like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Attributed, 1727
- “A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.” – “Opticks”, 1704
- “It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.” – “Opticks”, 1704
- “If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.” – Attributed, 1727
- “Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.” – “Opticks”, 1704