Isaac Newton Quotes

English - Mathematician | December 25, 1642 - March 20, 1727

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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WallsBridgesEnoughBuildManyToo

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

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InspirationalOthersShouldersSeen

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

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ActionBrainyReactionAlwaysEqual

Genius is patience.

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PatienceGenius

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

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PeopleMadnessI CanMotionHeavenly

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

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GodAloneMeExistenceConvince

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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TruthSimplicityTruth IsConfusion

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

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SuccessMeOrdinaryOnlyApplication

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, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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TruthGreatMyselfOceanMeWorld

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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ArtErrors

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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FriendTruthGreatestMy Friend

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

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LoveGodParentsWorldHonorHim

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