Inspirational Quotes by Isaac Newton — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”

“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”

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

“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 sea-shore, 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.”

“God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.”

“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...”

“Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua; lo que ignoramos es un océano.”

“Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.”

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”