Quotes from Isaac Newton

Genius is patience.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

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.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

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

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

The best way to understanding is a few good examples.

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

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.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least.