Isaac Newton

Question 1

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” ~ Isaac Newton

Answer 1

25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27)[a] was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.

Question 2

“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 3

“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 4

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 5

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 6

“Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 7

“If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 8

“All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 9

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 10

“Every action has an equal and opposite reaction” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 11

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 12

“All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 13

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 14

“I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 15

“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 16

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 17

“Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 18

“To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 19

“My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.” ~ Isaac Newton

Question 20

“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