Isaac Newton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.”

“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.”

“Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.”

“We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.”

“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.”

“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.”

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

“The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.”