“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” — 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… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation… — 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… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause,… — 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… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and… — 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
Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of the year 1665 I found the Method of approximating series & the Rule for reducing any dignity of… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward. — 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
The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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
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
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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