Isaac Newton

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

— Isaac Newton

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I…

— Isaac Newton

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they…

— Isaac Newton

The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line…

— Isaac Newton

The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which…

— Isaac Newton

What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates…

— Isaac Newton

“For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps…

— Isaac Newton

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change…

— Isaac Newton

He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is…

— Isaac Newton

I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for…

— Isaac Newton

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we…

— Isaac Newton

Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate…

— Isaac Newton

A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection,…

— Isaac Newton

He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is…

— Isaac Newton

This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to…

— Isaac Newton

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and…

— Isaac Newton

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are…

— Isaac Newton

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not…

— Isaac Newton

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those…

— Isaac Newton

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor…

— Isaac Newton

The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree,…

— Isaac Newton

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier…

— Isaac Newton

“We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible…

— Isaac Newton

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another,…

— Isaac Newton

'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and…

— Isaac Newton

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun…

— Isaac Newton

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better…

— Isaac Newton

Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause,…

— Isaac Newton

'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion of God, not over his own…

— Isaac Newton

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the…

— Isaac Newton

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me,…

— Isaac Newton

Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his…

— Isaac Newton

You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause…

— Isaac Newton

Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much…

— Isaac Newton

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores…

— Isaac Newton

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the…

— Isaac Newton

You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or…

— Isaac Newton

If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would…

— Isaac Newton

I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber…

— Isaac Newton

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation…

— Isaac Newton