“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”1
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.”
“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.”
“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.”
“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.”
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
“The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.”
“Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.”
“The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.”
“Don’t doubt the Creator because it is inconceivable that accidents alone could be the controller of this universe.”
“I believe the more I study science, the more I believe in God.”
“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.”
“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.”
“No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.”
“A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
Isaac Newton Quotes (Author of The Principia )
Isaac Newton Quotes – BrainyQuote
37 Sir Isaac Newton Quotes That Will Expand Your Mind – Succeed Feed
30 Sir Isaac Newton Quotes About Life, Science, And Success – The Random Vibez
I love the quotes from scientific giants that you post. I wish I were still in Academia; I would do a special topics course on the History of Science based upon such quotes! Might I suggest that you consider writing a textbook that could be used in such a course?😊