The best Quotes by Isaac Newton

12 Quotes · 1 Sourced · 2 Unsourced · 1 Misattributed · 2 Mentions

Born

December 25, 1642 · Woolsthorpe Manor

Died

March 20, 1727 · Kensington

Country of birth

Kingdom of England

Occupation

mathematician · philosopher

Known for

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica · Method of Fluxions · Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

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

Knowledge

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

Humanity

Genius is patience.

Genius

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

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Aristotle Plato Truth Philosophy

What goes up must come down.

Falling down

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

God

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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.

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

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

Misattributed Quotes

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Human Rights Freedom Brücken

Quotes about Isaac Newton

I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.

Charles Darwin

Time is our ultimate scarcity. Isaac Newton can give us more electricity, but he can't give us more than 24 hours of the day of time. And so we're constantly having to sacrifice alternate activities to get the one that pleases us most.

Paul Samuelson