Isaac Newton Quotes

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Isaac Newton

Profession : Mathematician

Birth : December 25, 1642

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Isaac Newton

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

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

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

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

Isaac Newton

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

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.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton

Genius is patience.

Isaac Newton