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title: "Best Science Quotes by Isaac Newton"
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> [To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/to-derive-two-or-three-general-principles-of-motion-from-ph-nomena/)

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> [The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-synthesis-consists-in-assuming-the-causes-discovered-and/)

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> [The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-qualities-of-bodies-which-admit-neither-intension-nor-remission/)

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> [He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/he-that-in-ye-mine-of-knowledge-deepest-diggeth-hath-like-every-other/)

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> [By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/by-such-deductions-the-law-of-gravitation-is-rendered-probable-that/)

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> [My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/my-design-in-this-book-is-not-to-explain-the-properties-of-light-by/)

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> [We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/we-are-not-to-consider-the-world-as-the-body-of-god-he-is-an-uniform/)

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> [Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/against-filling-the-heavens-with-fluid-mediums-unless-they-be/)

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> [Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/are-not-all-hypotheses-erroneous-in-which-light-is-supposed-to/)

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> [Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/absolute-true-and-mathematical-time-in-and-of-itself-and-of-its-own/)

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> [Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/do-not-great-bodies-conserve-their-heat-the-longest-their-parts/)

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> [You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. ... Morpheous is my last companion ; without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/you-ask-me-how-with-so-much-study-i-manage-to-retene-my-health/)

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> [As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/as-in-mathematicks-so-in-natural-philosophy-the-investigation-of/)

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> [Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/our-present-work-sets-forth-mathematical-principles-of-philosophy-for/)

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> [This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/this-excellent-mathematician-having-given-us-in-the-transactions-of/)

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> [“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/god-without-dominion-providence-and-final-causes-is-nothing-else-but/)

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> [To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/to-any-action-there-is-always-an-opposite-and-equal-reaction-in-other/)

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> [Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/do-not-bodies-and-light-act-mutually-upon-one-another-that-is-to-say/)

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> [We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/we-are-certainly-not-to-relinquish-the-evidence-of-experiments-for/)

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> [Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/is-not-fire-a-body-heated-so-hot-as-to-emit-light-copiously-for-what/)

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> [I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-see-i-have-made-myself-a-slave-to-philosophy-but-if-i-get-free-of/)

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> [Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/thus-far-i-have-explained-the-phenomena-of-the-heavens-and-of-our-sea/)

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> [It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/it-seems-probable-to-me-that-god-in-the-beginning-formed-matter-in/)

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> [Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/thus-you-may-multiply-each-stone-4-times-no-more-for-they-will-then/)

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> [ \[1.\] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/1-and-first-i-suppose-that-there-is-diffused-through-all-places-an/)

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> [The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-best-and-safest-way-of-philosophising-seems-to-be-first-to/)

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## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-same-law-takes-place-in-a-system-consisting-of-many-bodies-as-in/)

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> [I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-have-been-much-amused-at-ye-singular-phenomena-resulting-from/)

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> [No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/no-great-discovery-was-ever-made-without-a-bold-guess/)

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> [I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-keep-the-subject-of-my-inquiry-constantly-before-me-and-wait-till/)

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> [Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/philosophy-is-such-an-impertinently-litigious-lady-that-a-man-had-as/)

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> [Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) \[all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/do-not-bodies-act-upon-light-at-a-distance-and-by-their-action-bend/)

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> [God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/god-in-the-beginning-formed-matter-in-solid-massy-hard-impenetrable/)

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> [ I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations \[of Pi\], having no other business at the time ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/i-am-ashamed-to-tell-you-to-how-many-figures-i-carried-these/)

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> [Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/hypotheses-non-fingo-i-frame-no-hypotheses/)

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> [The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/the-ignis-fatuus-is-a-vapor-shining-without-heat/)

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> [Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/blind-metaphysical-necessity-which-is-certainly-the-same-always-and/)

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> [You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/you-sometimes-speak-of-gravity-as-essential-and-inherent-to-matter/)

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> [There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/there-are-more-sure-marks-of-authenticity-in-the-bible-than-in-any/)

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> [Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/therefore-to-the-same-natural-effects-we-must-as-far-as-possible/)

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> [In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-newton/in-scripture-we-are-told-of-some-trusting-in-god-and-others-trusting/)

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