Isaac Newton And His Words Of Wisdom

 

1. "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."

 

2. "If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

 

3. "No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated."

4. "I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."

 

5. "If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent."

 

6. "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."

 

7. "No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."

8. "I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy."

9. "A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

 

10. "We build too many walls and not enough bridges."

 

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

 

12. "This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

13. "If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."

 

14. "About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition"

15. "It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

 

16. "Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers"

 

17. "Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

 

18. "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 the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree."

 

19. "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."

 

20. "Yet one thing secures us what ever betide,/ The scriptures assures us the Lord will provide."