No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
– Isaac Newton
Christianity | The Bible
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
– Isaac Newton
Character
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.
– Isaac Newton
Scripture | Philosophy | Christianity
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
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.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.
– Isaac Newton
Adversity | Patience | Revenge
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
– Isaac Newton
Examples
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
– Isaac Newton
Patience | Reasoning
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
– Isaac Newton
Discretion | Enemies
If I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient attention than to anything beside.
– Isaac Newton
Patience
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
– Isaac Newton
Leadership
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
– Isaac Newton
Ignorance
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
– Isaac Newton
Adversity
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
– Isaac Newton
Truth
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
– Isaac Newton
Truth