Isaac Newton Quotes

“Nullius in verba was the Royal Society’s motto. Don’t take anyone’s word for it.”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton

“God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies which we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne.…”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton

“He is omnipresent not only virtually but also substantially.… In him all things are contained and move, but he does not act on them nor they on him.… He is always and everywhere.… He is all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all force of sensing, of understanding, and of acting.5”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton

“(“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”).”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton

“Plato is my friend, but truth my greater friend.”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton

“He had discovered a great truth of nature. He had proved it and been disputed. He had tried to show how science is grounded in concrete practice rather than grand theories. In chasing a shadow, he felt, he had sacrificed his tranquillity.”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton

“Difference in opinion if such there be me thinks shoud not be the occasion of Enmity.”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton

“Nothing endures but change.”
― James Gleick, Isaac Newton