This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and… — 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
A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which]… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish… — 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
A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they… — 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
