Isaac Newton

Physics English 1643 – 1727 158 quotes

Formulated laws of motion and universal gravitation

Quotes by Isaac Newton

He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, his duration reaches from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity.

General Scholium, Principia Mathematica 1713

This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all.

General Scholium, Principia Mathematica 1713

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising.

General Scholium, Principia Mathematica 1713

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if things be false, they are not things.

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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but truth is my greater friend.

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I have studied these things, and I have found that the Bible is the most authentic history in the world.

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The most beautiful order of the sun, planets, and comets, could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

Principia Mathematica (2nd ed.) 1713

God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

Opticks 1704

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

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The true God is a living, intelligent, and powerful being.

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I consider my scientific work as a means to an end, the end being to understand the mind of God.

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The more I study the universe and all its wonders, the more I am convinced that there is a divine hand at work.

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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever.

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The variety of motion which we find in the world is not to be attributed to the variety of matter, but to the variety of the impressions made upon it by the will of God.

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The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos could only have emerged from the plan of an omniscient and omnipotent Being.

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I have made a discovery of a very great importance, and that is, that the world is governed by laws, and not by chance.

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The true method of philosophy is to begin with the phenomena of nature, and from them to deduce the forces of nature, and from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

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The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

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I have found that the Bible is the most authentic history in the world.

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