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
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
[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within… — 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
“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at… — 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
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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