Quotes by Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton

British scientist, mathematician

Alive from: 1642-1727

Category: Science

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  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.

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  Actioni contrariam semper et æqualem esse reactionem.
  Source: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

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  Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
  
  Source: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) Preface

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  Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

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  I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all.
  Source: Definitions - Scholium

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  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.
  Source: Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)

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  I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

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  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.

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  If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

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

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

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  If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.
  Source: Letter to Robert Hooke, 15 febr. 1676

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

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  In science we resemble children collecting a few pebbles at the beach of knowledge, while the wide ocean of the unknown unfolds itself in front of us.

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