May 30, 2022

GREAT QUOTES OF NEWTON | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF NEWTON


“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” - Isaac Newton

“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.” - Isaac Newton

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” - Isaac Newton

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

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.” - Isaac Newton

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” - Isaac Newton

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

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

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” - Isaac Newton

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being...
This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.” - Isaac Newton

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.” - Sir Isaac Newton