Isaac Newton Quotes

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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

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Inspirational, Teamwork, Humility

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

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Math, Confusion, Simplicity

Isaac Newton (1994). “Trattato sull Apocalisse”

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

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Gravity, Planets

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What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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Ocean, Knows

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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

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Inspirational, Live Your Life, Explanation

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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

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Distance, Light, Interesting

"Isaac Newton: Inventor, Scientist, and Teacher". Book by John Hudson Tiner, 1975.

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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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Inspiration, Discovery, Made

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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

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Prayer, Discovery, Answers

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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

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Opposites, Action, Equal

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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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Positive, Wisdom, Art

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

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Funny, People, Insanity

"Proust Was a Neuroscientist". Book by Isaac Newton, p. 27, February 3, 2011.

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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.

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Children, Ocean, Atheism

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

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Thumbs, Absence, Proof

"Human Nature : An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective", Vol. 1, Issues 7-12, p. 47, 1978.

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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

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Years, Contemplation, Simplest

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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.

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Uplifting, Men, Imagination

Sir Isaac Newton (1950). “Theological Manuscripts: Selected and Edited with an Introd. by H. McLachlan”

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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Isaac Newton

Ordinary, Application

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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.

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Fall, Order, Perfection

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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

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Silence, Meditation, Truth Is

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

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Believe, Thinking, Half

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Physics, beware of metaphysics.

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Physics, Metaphysics

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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.

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Beautiful, God, Powerful

Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1023, Delphi Classics

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

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Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

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Aggravation, Accomplishment, Celibacy

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You have to make the rules, not follow them

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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

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Understanding, Example, Way

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Born: January 4, 1643
Died: March 31, 1727
Occupation: Physicist
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