The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have… — 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 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
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast… — 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 a boy… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas. ( Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth .)” — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me — 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
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier… — 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
