If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line… — 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
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
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
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
. . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like… — 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
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
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