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Sir Isaac Newton Quotes about Success in Life

Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer and an author. He was born in 4th January 1643 at Lincolnshire, England. He was the key person in the scientific revolution.

Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that dominant scientific viewpoint for centuries. In mechanics, his three laws of motion the basic principles of modern physics, resulted in the formulation of the law of universal gravitation.

Here are some of the most inspiring and motivated Sir Isaac Newton quotes and quotations about gravity, education, physics, love, mathematics, life, science, god, time, laws of motion, education are as follows,

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton

“To every action, there is always opposed an equal reaction.” – Isaac Newton

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” – Isaac Newton

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

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” – Isaac Newton

“When two forces unite, their efficiency double.” – Isaac Newton

“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.” – Isaac Newton

“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.” – Isaac Newton

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Isaac Newton

“I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.” – Isaac Newton

“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

“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.” – Isaac Newton

“I frame no hypotheses.” – Isaac Newton

“In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.” – Isaac Newton

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

“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” – Isaac Newton

“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” – Isaac Newton

“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.” – Isaac Newton

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” – Isaac Newton

“I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.” – Isaac Newton

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.” – Isaac Newton

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.” – Isaac Newton

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

“I was able to see farther because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton

“We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.” – Isaac Newton

“I can calculate the movement of stars, but not the madness of men.” – Isaac Newton

“If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.” – Isaac Newton

“I can take my telescope and look millions of miles into space; but I can go away to my room and in a moment reach to the depths of the microcosm.” – Isaac Newton

“Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.” – Isaac Newton

“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

“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, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything.” – Isaac Newton

“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.” – Isaac Newton

“What goes up must come down.” – Isaac Newton

“Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.” – Isaac Newton

“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. 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.” – Isaac Newton

“If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.” – Isaac Newton

“I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.” – Isaac Newton

“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” – Isaac Newton

“I was 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.” – Isaac Newton

“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.” – Isaac Newton

“To myself, I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” – Isaac Newton

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

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.” – Isaac Newton

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

“Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.” – Isaac Newton

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” – Isaac Newton

“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 variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing.” – Isaac Newton

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.” – Isaac Newton

“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.” – Isaac Newton

“Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?” – Isaac Newton

“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton

“What goes up must come down.” – Isaac Newton

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” – Isaac Newton

“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, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” – Isaac Newton

“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.’” – Isaac Newton

“The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.” – Isaac Newton

“Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.” – Isaac Newton

“Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.” – Isaac Newton

“Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.” – Isaac Newton

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