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

— Isaac Newton

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main design of the book.

— Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

— Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

— Isaac Newton

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 & leave the rest for others that come after you.

— Isaac Newton

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

— Isaac Newton

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

— Isaac Newton

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

— Isaac Newton

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

— Isaac Newton

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

— Isaac Newton