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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“ 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
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
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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image