Isaac Newton Quotes on Truth
Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher whose Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy laid the foundation for classical mechanics and helped to inaugurate modern science. This page collects quotes attributed to Isaac Newton on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Isaac Newton:
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
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Attributed to Isaac Newton:
“I do not feign hypotheses.”
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Attributed to Isaac Newton:
“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
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Attributed to Isaac Newton:
“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”
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Attributed to Isaac Newton:
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”