Isaac Newton Quotes

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• I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition…
• There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
• An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
• As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye…
• Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
• Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
• As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.…
• Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name…
• Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond…
• And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely…
• He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God…
• It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and…
• He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to…
• You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is…
• Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
• In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other…
• My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments:…
• The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by…
• The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of…
• Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on…

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