Isaac Newton best Faith Quotes – “Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.”
Isaac Newton best Equality Quotes – “The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.”
Isaac Newton best Dreams Quotes – “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.”
Isaac Newton best Change Quotes – “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.”
Isaac Newton best Chance Quotes – “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 best Business Quotes – “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.”
Isaac Newton best Brainy Quotes – “To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.”
Isaac Newton best Art Quotes – “Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
Isaac Newton best Art Quotes – “Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”
Isaac Newton best Alone Quotes – “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.”
Isaac Newton best Alone Quotes – “The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.”
Isaac Newton best Age Quotes – “To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.”
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 in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton