Isaac Newton Truth Quotations

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

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

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine origin.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.