I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton More Quotes by Isaac Newton More Quotes From Isaac Newton The best way to understanding is a few good examples. Isaac Newton understandingexampleway He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God. Isaac Newton halfbelievethinking Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. Isaac Newton my-friendsplatotruth God created everything by number, weight and measure. Isaac Newton weightmathnumbers To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me Isaac Newton crazybeachchildren To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation. Isaac Newton contemplationsimplestyears You have to make the rules, not follow them Isaac Newton Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy. Isaac Newton natureinspiringinspirational What goes up must come down. Isaac Newton knocked-uplightersnewton Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton wisdompositiveart The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. Isaac Newton designcuriositymen 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 harmonycosmoswonderful It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions. Isaac Newton confusionperfectionorder As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. Isaac Newton wisemenscience No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated. Isaac Newton spaceminddoe To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age Isaac Newton agemenscience We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. Isaac Newton scripturesublimephilosophy The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton trustoceantruth When two forces unite, their efficiency double. Isaac Newton efficiencyforcetwo I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy. Isaac Newton celibacyaggravationaccomplishment
