Isaac Newton Quotes

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

~ Isaac Newton

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.

~ Isaac Newton

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

~ Isaac Newton

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.

~ Isaac Newton

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

~ Isaac Newton

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

~ Isaac Newton