Selected Quotes By Isaac Newton
"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is the truth."
Isaac Newton, Truth
"What goes up must come down."
Isaac Newton, Science
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent."
Isaac Newton, Intelligence/Wisdom
"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."
Isaac Newton, Work
"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."
Isaac Newton, Success
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Isaac Newton, Anger and Fighting
"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess."
Isaac Newton, Intelligence/Wisdom
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
Isaac Newton, Intelligence/Wisdom
"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
Isaac Newton, Science
"I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me."
Isaac Newton, Intelligence/Wisdom
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton, Intelligence/Wisdom
"What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean."