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I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother...
I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
Source: In The Correspondence of...
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in...
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
Source: In The...
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than any other...
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Source: Letter...
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false,...
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Source: third law of...
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
Source: Opticks, Bk....
If I have done the public any service, it is due to patient thought.
Source: In...
'Hypotheses non fingo.' I feign no hypotheses.
Source: 'Principia mathematica',...
Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right [straight] line, unless it is compelled to...
It is the weight, not numbers, of experiments that is to be regarded.
Source: The...
Yet one thing secures us what ever betide,
The scriptures assures us the Lord will...
This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful...
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be!, and all was light. [Epigram on Sir Isaac Newton...
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
Source:...
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.