Skip to content

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.

— Isaac Newton

Another quote →

More quotes by Isaac Newton

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

Symmetry in Plants (1998)

I have studied these things — you have not.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age...

All Isaac Newton quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Newton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.