110+ Isaac Newton Quotes On Education, Gravity And God

Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time. He is best known for developing the laws of motion and universal gravitation, which form the foundation of classical mechanics. He also made seminal contributions to optics and shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of calculus. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Isaac Newton on education, gravity, god.

Top 10 Isaac Newton Quotes

1. Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
2. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
3. Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
4. In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
5. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
6. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
7. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
8. Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
9. I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
10. 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 Image Quotes

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. — Isaac Newton

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. — Isaac Newton

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. — Isaac Newton

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. — Isaac Newton

What goes up must come down. — Isaac Newton

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. — Isaac Newton

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

Isaac Newton Short Quotes

• My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
• No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
• What goes up must come down.
• To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
• Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
• I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
• If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
• When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
• Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
• To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Isaac Newton Quotes About Gravity

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time. — Isaac Newton

You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it. — Isaac Newton

One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made. — Isaac Newton

The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity. — Isaac Newton

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. — Isaac Newton

Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers. — Isaac Newton

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

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit. — Isaac Newton

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent. — Isaac Newton

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun. — Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Quotes About God

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. — Isaac Newton

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition to godliness is atheism in profession and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton

We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will. — Isaac Newton

God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe. — Isaac Newton

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

Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs ). — Isaac Newton

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts. — Isaac Newton

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. — Isaac Newton

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them. — Isaac Newton

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast. — Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Quotes About Math

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore. — Isaac Newton

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Isaac Newton

I feign no hypotheses. — Isaac Newton

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton

God created everything by number, weight and measure. — Isaac Newton

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. — Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Quotes About Love

Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor even punish her. She knew not what she was doing, and that which she did was for my protection and for love of my person. Her place remains at my side or against my feet when I lie abed. — Isaac Newton

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business. — Isaac Newton

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks. — Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Quotes About Knowledge

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me. — Isaac Newton

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth. — Isaac Newton

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air. — Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Quotes About Motion

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force. — Isaac Newton

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision. — Isaac Newton

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it. — Isaac Newton

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated. — Isaac Newton

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

Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion. — Isaac Newton

Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the Planets and Comets in all manner of Courses through the Heavens. — Isaac Newton

An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion. — Isaac Newton

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it. — Isaac Newton

The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed. — Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Quotes About Bodies

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

OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition. — Isaac Newton

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood? — Isaac Newton

The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. — Isaac Newton

Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line. — Isaac Newton

Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature? — Isaac Newton

Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances? — Isaac Newton

Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center. — Isaac Newton

Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance? — Isaac Newton

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants. — Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Quotes About System

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. — Isaac Newton

This most beautiful system The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. — Isaac Newton

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest. — Isaac Newton

The centre of the system of the world is immovable. — Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Famous Quotes And Sayings

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. — Isaac Newton

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. — Isaac Newton

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. — Isaac Newton

What goes up must come down. — Isaac Newton

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. — Isaac Newton

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. — Isaac Newton

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

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 seashore, 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. — Isaac Newton

The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us. — Isaac Newton

The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension. — Isaac Newton

Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah . — Isaac Newton

He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator". For “god" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body "as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants. — Isaac Newton

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things. — Isaac Newton

I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties. — Isaac Newton

The best way to understanding is a few good examples. — Isaac Newton

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

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, 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. — Isaac Newton

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — Isaac Newton

Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? — Isaac Newton

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. — Isaac Newton

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world? — Isaac Newton

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. — Isaac Newton

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn. — Isaac Newton

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. — Isaac Newton

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. — Isaac Newton

The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree. — Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. — Isaac Newton

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. — Isaac Newton

The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former. — Isaac Newton

The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood. — Isaac Newton

You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke. My practices did at ye first hurt my stomach, but now I eat heartily enou' as y' will see when I come down beside you. — Isaac Newton

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. — Isaac Newton

By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true. — Isaac Newton

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. — Isaac Newton

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself. — Isaac Newton

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal] — Isaac Newton

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions. — Isaac Newton

The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon , the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat. — Isaac Newton

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least. — Isaac Newton

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions. — Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age — Isaac Newton

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses. — Isaac Newton

As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place. — Isaac Newton

In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast. — Isaac Newton

The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus . — Isaac Newton

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her. — Isaac Newton

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center. — Isaac Newton

Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out. — Isaac Newton

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date. — Isaac Newton

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis. — Isaac Newton

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. — Isaac Newton

I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale. — Isaac Newton

Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition. — Isaac Newton

I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. — Isaac Newton

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions. — Isaac Newton

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over. — Isaac Newton

A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch. — Isaac Newton

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense. — Isaac Newton

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? — Isaac Newton

My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms. — Isaac Newton

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

Life Lessons by Isaac Newton

1. Isaac Newton's work showed us the importance of questioning the world around us and developing theories to explain it.
2. He also demonstrated the power of mathematics to explain natural phenomena, and the importance of experimentation to test theories.
3. His discoveries in optics, calculus, and mechanics have shaped our understanding of the physical world and laid the foundation for modern physics.