303 Quotes by Isaac Newton

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?

Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

I understood. I have understood. I do understand.