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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

Isaac Newton

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

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

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

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

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

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

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Isaac Newton

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, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

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

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 & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Isaac Newton

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Isaac Newton

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.

Isaac Newton

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

Isaac Newton

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Isaac Newton

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

Isaac Newton

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Isaac Newton

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

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

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Isaac Newton

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

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

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

Isaac Newton

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, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

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 absolute time is liable to no change.

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

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Isaac Newton