Famous Quotes by Isaac Newton

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

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

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

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

To every action, there is always an equal and opposite reaction.

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

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

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

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

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

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

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

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

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

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

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.