Isaac Newton Quotes

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

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.

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.

It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.