Isaac Newton

“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.”

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

“Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.”

“Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.”

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

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the...”

“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...”

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

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

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

“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 R...”

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”

“What goes up must come down.”

“How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of...”

“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no var...”

“eorum omnium actiones in se invicem”

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

“Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, whic...”

“Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, w...”

“It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolut...”