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
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
The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. — 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
