303 Quotes by Isaac Newton

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

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.

You have to make the rules, not follow them

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

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

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

That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.