Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common… — 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
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
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For… — 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
