I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little,… — 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… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances? — 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
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
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
“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open… — 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
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow… — 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
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 daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while… — 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
From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at… — 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
