Famous Quotes by Isaac Newton

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

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

"What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean."

"To every action, there is always an equal and opposite reaction."

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."

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

"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."

"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy."

"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

"The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."