Isaac Newton Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. 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.

3. Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

4. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

5. Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

6. eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

7. 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. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

8. Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

9. 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...? Opticks

10. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton

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

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

13. Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

14. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler. The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

15. This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book. Opticks

16. What goes up must come down.