--- title: "15 Ifs Quotes By Isaac Newton" description: "15 Ifs quotes by Isaac Newton. Plus more from Isaac Newton and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a1/isaac-newton-1226_ifs_if-i-had-stayed-for-other-people-to-make_1893533.jpg" --- > [If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/if-i-had-stayed-for-other-people-to-make-my-tools-and-things-for-me-i/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a1/isaac-newton-1226_ifs_if-i-had-stayed-for-other-people-to-make_1893533.jpg) > [Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/let-me-think-i-wonder-if-an-anvil-will-drop-like-an-apple/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/499/isaac-newton-1226_anvil_let-me-think-i-wonder-if-an-anvil-will-d_482328.jpg) > [If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/if-others-would-think-as-hard-as-i-did-then-they-would-get-similar/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d71/isaac-newton-1226_hard_if-others-would-think-as-hard-as-i-did-t_204166.jpg) > [If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/if-i-am-anything-which-i-highly-doubt-i-have-made-myself-so-by-hard/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d4/isaac-newton-1226_doubt_if-i-am-anything-which-i-highly-doubt-i_2703965.jpg) > [My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/my-principal-method-for-defeating-error-and-heresy-is-by-establishing/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb3/isaac-newton-1226_errors_my-principal-method-for-defeating-error_2517867.jpg) > [The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-seed-of-a-tree-has-the-nature-of-a-branch-or-twig-or-bud-it-is-a/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91e/isaac-newton-1226_branches_the-seed-of-a-tree-has-the-nature-of-a-b_604688.jpg) > [If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/if-the-ancient-churches-in-debating-and-deciding-the-greatest/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82b/isaac-newton-1226_ancient_if-the-ancient-churches-in-debating-and_2024965.jpg) > [If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/if-you-are-affronted-it-is-better-to-pass-it-by-in-silence-or-with-a/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/580/isaac-newton-1226_be-patient_if-you-are-affronted-it-is-better-to-pas_1680292.jpg) > [If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/if-two-angels-were-sent-down-from-heaven-one-to-conduct-an-empire-and-2/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa3/isaac-newton-1226_angel_if-two-angels-were-sent-down-from-heaven_2745643.jpg) > [All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/all-material-things-seem-to-have-been-composed-of-the-hard-and-solid/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21d/isaac-newton-1226_agents_all-material-things-seem-to-have-been-co_472972.jpg) > [This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/this-most-beautiful-system-of-the-sun-planets-and-comets-could-only-2/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0fb/isaac-newton-1226_astronomy_this-most-beautiful-system-of-the-sun-pl_1564182.jpg) > [The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-prophecies-of-daniel-are-all-of-them-related-to-one-another-as-if/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/774/isaac-newton-1226_add_the-prophecies-of-daniel-are-all-of-them_994718.jpg) > [I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-see-i-have-made-myself-a-slave-to-philosophy-but-if-i-get-free-of/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b98/isaac-newton-1226_ifs_i-see-i-have-made-myself-a-slave-to-phil_2378049.jpg) > [As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/as-i-am-writing-another-illustration-of-ye-generation-of-hills/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/isaac-newton-1226_beer_as-i-am-writing-another-illustration-of_1638969.jpg) > [The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-folly-of-interpreters-has-been-to-foretell-times-and-things-by/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/isaac-newton-1226_contempt_the-folly-of-interpreters-has-been-to-fo_2380173.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Isaac Newton > [The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-same-law-takes-place-in-a-system-consisting-of-many-bodies-as-in/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-have-been-much-amused-at-ye-singular-phenomena-resulting-from/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/no-great-discovery-was-ever-made-without-a-bold-guess/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-keep-the-subject-of-my-inquiry-constantly-before-me-and-wait-till/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/philosophy-is-such-an-impertinently-litigious-lady-that-a-man-had-as/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) \[all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/do-not-bodies-act-upon-light-at-a-distance-and-by-their-action-bend/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/god-in-the-beginning-formed-matter-in-solid-massy-hard-impenetrable/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [ I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations \[of Pi\], having no other business at the time ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-am-ashamed-to-tell-you-to-how-many-figures-i-carried-these/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/hypotheses-non-fingo-i-frame-no-hypotheses/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-ignis-fatuus-is-a-vapor-shining-without-heat/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/blind-metaphysical-necessity-which-is-certainly-the-same-always-and/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/you-sometimes-speak-of-gravity-as-essential-and-inherent-to-matter/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/there-are-more-sure-marks-of-authenticity-in-the-bible-than-in-any/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/therefore-to-the-same-natural-effects-we-must-as-far-as-possible/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) > [In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/in-scripture-we-are-told-of-some-trusting-in-god-and-others-trusting/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/isaac-newton/#itemlist", "name": "15 Ifs Quotes By Isaac Newton", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Isaac Newton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/if-i-had-stayed-for-other-people-to-make-my-tools-and-things-for-me-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a1/isaac-newton-1226_ifs_if-i-had-stayed-for-other-people-to-make_1893533.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a1/isaac-newton-1226_ifs_if-i-had-stayed-for-other-people-to-make_1893533.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a1/isaac-newton-1226_ifs_if-i-had-stayed-for-other-people-to-make_1893533.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything” — Isaac Newton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Let me think... 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