--- title: "15 May Quotes By Isaac Newton" description: "15 May quotes by Isaac Newton. Plus more from Isaac Newton and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb3/isaac-newton-1226_errors_my-principal-method-for-defeating-error_2517867.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) > [I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-do-not-know-what-i-may-appear-to-the-world-but-to-myself-i-seem-to-3/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e67/isaac-newton-1226_boys_i-do-not-know-what-i-may-appear-to-the-w_1337813.jpg) > [Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/hypotheses-should-be-subservient-only-in-explaining-the-properties-of/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e04/isaac-newton-1226_far_hypotheses-should-be-subservient-only-in_3222556.jpg) > [I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-do-not-know-what-i-may-appear-to-the-world-but-to-myself-i-seem-to-2/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/isaac-newton-1226_great_i-do-not-know-what-i-may-appear-to-the-w_1021910.jpg) > [ God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies \[which\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/god-who-gave-animals-self-motion-beyond-our-understanding-is-without/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ed/isaac-newton-1226_able_god-who-gave-animals-self-motion-beyond_2531044.jpg) > [Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/do-not-great-bodies-conserve-their-heat-the-longest-their-parts/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecd/isaac-newton-1226_action_do-not-great-bodies-conserve-their-heat_2089670.jpg) > [That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/that-one-body-may-act-upon-another-at-a-distance-through-a-vacuum/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf6/isaac-newton-1226_absurdity_that-one-body-may-act-upon-another-at-a_530027.jpg) > [A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/a-vulgar-mechanick-can-practice-what-he-has-been-taught-or-seen-done/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf7/isaac-newton-1226_able_a-vulgar-mechanick-can-practice-what-he_3156812.jpg) > [As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/as-attraction-is-stronger-in-small-magnets-than-in-great-ones-in/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/73a/isaac-newton-1226_agents_as-attraction-is-stronger-in-small-magne_3064945.jpg) > [A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/a-good-watch-may-serve-to-keep-a-recconing-at-sea-for-some-days-and/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/930/isaac-newton-1226_celestial_a-good-watch-may-serve-to-keep-a-recconi_2313411.jpg) > [Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/thus-you-may-multiply-each-stone-4-times-no-more-for-they-will-then/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/116/isaac-newton-1226_ads_thus-you-may-multiply-each-stone-4-times_1707238.jpg) > [This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/this-excellent-mathematician-having-given-us-in-the-transactions-of/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a8/isaac-newton-1226_accounts_this-excellent-mathematician-having-give_409201.jpg) > [The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-best-and-safest-way-of-philosophising-seems-to-be-first-to/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/943/isaac-newton-1226_employed_the-best-and-safest-way-of-philosophisin_2816749.jpg) > [Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture… There are therefore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/now-the-smallest-particles-of-matter-may-cohere-by-the-strongest/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/isaac-newton-1226_able_now-the-smallest-particles-of-matter-may_1012334.jpg) > [Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/are-not-gross-bodies-and-light-convertible-into-one-another-and-may/) [Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-newton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d14/isaac-newton-1226_activity_are-not-gross-bodies-and-light-convertib_1933879.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## 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/may/isaac-newton/#itemlist", "name": "15 May Quotes By Isaac Newton", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. 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Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. 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