“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising;… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think… — 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
I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely… — 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
“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
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to… — 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