The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy… — 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
To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of… — 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
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