“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.” — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their… — Isaac Newton Copy Share
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin… — Isaac Newton Copy Share
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a… — Isaac Newton Copy Share
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her. — Isaac Newton Copy Share
Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all… — Isaac Newton Copy Share
God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share
I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time — Isaac Newton Copy Share
Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things… — Isaac Newton Copy Share
You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity… — Isaac Newton Copy Share
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. — Isaac Newton Copy Share
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes. — Isaac Newton Copy Share
In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our… — Isaac Newton Copy Share
![“One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.” quote by Isaac Newton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/733/isaac-newton-1226_cold_one-method-is-by-a-watch-to-keep-time-ex_1308582.jpg)
