Inspirational Isaac Newton Quotes On Success

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess

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

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

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

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time.

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

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.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

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

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

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

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

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

What goes up must come down.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

No old Men love Mathematicks.