Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist, widely known for his contribution to the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
A lot of his work remained unpublished long after his death, especially studies on alchemy and biblical chronology. However, we have enough access to his work nowadays, and of course to his words of wisdom.
Here are 20 Isaac Newton quotes, to help you develop your inner curiosity.
1. If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
2. If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due to more patient and attention, than to any other talent.
3. Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation, I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little into a full and clear light.
4. In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
5. I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
6. We build too many walls, and not enough bridges.
7. A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
8. Tact is the knack of making a point, without making an enemy.
9. What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
10. Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain, who sets the planets in motion.
11. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
12. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
13. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
14. What goes up, must come down.
15. To explain all nature is too difficult task for any one man, or even for any one age.
16. Live your life as an Exclamation, rather than an Explanation.
17. To myself, I am only a child playing on the beach, while, vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
18. The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.
19. As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which, the all wise God perceives, and understands all things.
20. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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