Philosophy of science Quotes by Isaac Newton

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

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

— Isaac Newton

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

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

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

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

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

Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.

— Isaac Newton

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

— Isaac Newton

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

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