Quotes by Sir Isaac Newton

This most beautiful system [the universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, and leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason.

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

. . . from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

On how he made discoveries by always thinking unto them. . . . I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.