God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere,… — 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
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