58 result(s) for Isaac Newton Quotes.
"To every action, there is always opposed an equal reaction."
"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, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"I can discover no more than a possibility in singular things, by God's command everything is created."
"Nature is pleased with simplicity."
"To myself, I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."
"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is the truth."
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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."
"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."
"I can't think of a finer Token of friendship than what you have now given me."
"If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I could not have slept in my bed or had a heart content."
"I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men."
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
"What goes up must come down."
"I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light."
"Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation."
"There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history."
"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
"I do not know how I may seem to others, but to myself I am only a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with."
"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 and leave the rest for others that come after you."
"I can calculate the motions of the stars, but not the madness of men."
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"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
"Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
"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."
"I was in doubt and confusion of action, and then the truth found me and I gave my consent."
"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
"I can make no calculations in this chaos."
"Nature is pleased with simplicity, and nature is no dummy."
"The works must be equally perfect."
"If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results."
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent."
"What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."
"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
"Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation."
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"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, 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."
"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges."
"I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy."
"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."
"To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age."
"Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation."
"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true."
"I can calculate the movement of stars, but not the madness of men."
"In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
"I was like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell."
"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
"I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all."
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