Isaac Newton Quotes

"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Causes)

"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Truth, Lie, Beach, Oceans)

"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Science, Honor)

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Action)

"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Numbers, Weight)

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
- Isaac Newton

"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Thought, Public, Service)

"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."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Truth, Now, Ocean, Sea)

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: People, Madness)

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Art, Errors)

"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."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Man, May, Understanding)

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
- Isaac Newton
(Related: Art, Enemy, Tact)