black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Isaac Newton

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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
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

Explanation Leaving
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Gravity Motion Planet Science
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Agent Effect Insect Instinct Live Powerful Skill Wisdom
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

Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
ISAAC NEWTON

Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
ISAAC NEWTON

Religion Science
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

Breast God Night Season Thief Time
I feign no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTON

Hypothesis Mathematics
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
ISAAC NEWTON

Believe Business Positive Result Success Thinking
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

Body Force Science
Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
ISAAC NEWTON

Discover Gravity Thinking Time
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

Description Geometry Mathematics Requirement Teaching
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Calculate Funny Heaven Madness Motion People
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTON

Hypothesis
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
ISAAC NEWTON

Heat Shine Vapor

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Isaac Newton Quotes