THE 50 BEST PHRASES OF ISAAC NEWTON [WITH IMAGES] - OTHER PHRASES - 2025

I leave you the best phrases of Isaac Newton (1642-1727), discoverer physicist of the force of gravity and one of the most important scientists in history. He is the author of the Principia, a work that establishes the foundations of classical mechanics.

You may also be interested in these phrases of Galileo Galilei or these of mathematics.

-What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

-For each action an equal reaction is always opposed.

-We built too many walls and not enough bridges.

-Gravity explains the movements of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

-If I have seen further than others, it is because I was on the shoulders of giants.

-I can calculate the movement of celestial bodies, but not the madness of people.

-Touch is the art of making something see without making an enemy.

-You have to make the rules, not follow them.

-The errors are not in the art, but in the craftsmen.

-Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is not stupid.

-If I have given the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

-It is the weight, not the number of experiments, that must be considered.

-A man can imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

-Live your life as an exclamation instead of an explanation.

-Unity is variety, and variety in unity is the supreme law of the universe.

-All force exerted on a body is directly proportional to the acceleration it will experience.

- Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my best friend is the truth.

-To explain all nature, neither a man nor a complete age is enough. Instead, it is best for the man to seek a little truth and certainty, leaving the rest for others, for those to come, with guesswork and taking nothing for granted.

-No great discovery was ever made without a bold conjecture.

-Nature is truly coherent and comfortable with itself.

-In the absence of other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of the existence of God.

-Unity in variety, and variety in unity is the supreme law of the universe.

-If I have ever made a valuable discovery, it has been due to my patient attention, more than any other talent.

-For me there has never been a greater source of earthly honor than the distinction connected with advances in science.

-If I had expected other people to make my tools and my things, I would never have done anything.

-The one who no one likes, usually no one likes.

-I only have to examine a blade of grass, or a handful of earth, to confirm the existence of God.

-There is no philosophy more sublime than that known by the name of sacred writing.

-Everything that goes up, always has to come down.

-Those who undertake to search for the philosopher's stone by its same rules will be obliged to a strict and religious life.

-Kepler's laws, although not rigidly true, are close enough to the truth that they led to the discovery of the law of attraction for bodies in the solar system.

-The more time and dedication one spends in the worship of false gods, the less time one has to think about the true one.

-I don't know what the world thinks of me, but it seems to me to have been just a child playing on the seashore, having fun finding a smoother pebble or a more dazzling shell than normal, while the great ocean of truth was to discover everything before me.

-There are more sure indications of validity in the Bible than in any profane history.

-It is much better to see with a little certainty and leave the rest for the others who come later to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of anything.

-If others thought as hard as I did, they would get similar results.

-No older person loves mathematics.

-Hypotheses should not be considered in experimental philosophy.

-Atheism is so meaningless and hateful to humanity that it never had many teachers.

-My discoveries have been possible for having been the answer to prayers.

-The best way to understand is by using good examples.

-God is everywhere, the thoughts of minds are somewhere, and all bodies occupy a space.

-You cannot exist without being related to space in some way.

-God created everything with his rules, he included number, weight and measure in all things.

-God gave the Old Testament prophecies, not to satisfy the curiosity of the people, but so that later they can be interpreted according to the way they were fulfilled.

-Physics, be very careful with metaphysics.

-When the two forces unite, their efficiency is double.

-This beautiful system composed of the sun, the planets and the comets could not have less than been created by the advice and control of a powerful and intelligent entity. The supreme God is an eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect being.

-I take my telescope and observe space, which is millions of kilometers away. However, I enter my room and, through prayer, I can get closer to God and heaven than if I had all the telescopes on earth.

-God is able to create particles of matter of different sizes and shapes, and perhaps of different densities and forces, and in this way can vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of different types in different parts of the universe. At least I do not see anything contradictory in this.

-This is but an insignificant imitation of a much larger system whose laws you know, and I cannot convince you that this simple toy has no designer or maker, however you affirm that the great original from which this design was taken has arrived to exist without designer or maker.