Selected quotes · 18
№ 01
“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 NewtonFaith
№ 02
“We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.”
Isaac NewtonHumility
№ 03
“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. It is much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.”
Isaac NewtonNature
№ 04
“My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.”
Isaac NewtonSuccess
№ 05
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac NewtonWisdom
№ 06
“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.”
Isaac NewtonCreativity
№ 07
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
Isaac NewtonCreativity
№ 08
“Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
Isaac NewtonFriendship
№ 09
“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 NewtonJustice
№ 10
“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 NewtonCreativity
№ 11
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”
Isaac NewtonPatience
№ 12
“Genius is patience.”
Isaac NewtonPatience
№ 13
“If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”
Isaac NewtonMindset
№ 14
“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
Isaac NewtonCreativity
№ 15
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
Isaac NewtonJustice
№ 16
“Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.”
Isaac NewtonFaith
№ 17
“There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.”
Isaac NewtonWisdom
№ 18
“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”
Isaac NewtonFaith