Isaac Newton Quotes

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone... -Isaac Newton

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

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This quote humorously suggests that the intricate design and functionality of the human thumb serve as compelling evidence for the existence of a higher power or intelligent creator. It highlights the marvels of the natural world as indications of divine craftsmanship.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not i... -Isaac Newton

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

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

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.

The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the B... -Isaac Newton

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

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This quote asserts the view that the Bible possesses a higher degree of authenticity and reliability compared to secular or non-religious historical accounts. It implies a perspective that assigns a special status to the Bible as a source of historical truth and accuracy.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.

The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most su... -Isaac Newton

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

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This quote asserts the belief that religious scriptures, considered divinely inspired, contain the most profound and elevated wisdom and teachings. It suggests that these texts possess a level of philosophical depth that surpasses other forms of knowledge.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.