Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONPlato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONGod created everything by number, weight and measure.
ISAAC NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTONTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONWe 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 NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTONGenius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery action has an equal and opposite reaction.
ISAAC NEWTONAll 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 NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTONPhilosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTONAbsolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
ISAAC NEWTONThe great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism 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.
ISAAC NEWTONAs 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