Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Genius is patience.
I feign no hypotheses.
I do not feign hypotheses.
What goes up must come down.
Physics, beware of metaphysics.
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
You have to make the rules, not follow them
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.
I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
