303 Quotes by Isaac Newton

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

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.

Yeah, sex is cool, but have you tried solving the brachistochrone problem in a single night?

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

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 sea-shore, 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.

What goes up must come down.

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?

God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing.

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.