“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” Sir Isaac Newton
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Sir Isaac Newton
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” Sir 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.” Sir Isaac Newton
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.” Sir Isaac Newton
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” Sir Isaac Newton
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy” Sir Isaac Newton“
and to every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction” Sir Isaac Newton
“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.” Sir Isaac Newton
“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” Sir Isaac Newton
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent” Sir Isaac Newton
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” Sir 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.” Sir Isaac Newton
“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.” Sir Isaac Newton
“How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?” Sir Isaac Newton