Best Isaac Newton Quotations
- Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward. Action
- Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses. Frame
- By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the… Assumed
- [1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a… Aether
- We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they… Body
- The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. Agent
- The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the… Argue
- Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the… All
- Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the… Act
- All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of… Agent
- The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations. Assuming
- To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things… Action
- Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? Anvil
- For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a… Certain
- Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it… Body
- We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Bridges
- I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. Bodies
- If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Collaboration
- Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Art
- To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. Action
- A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension… Apprehension
- To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. Advances
- It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. Experiments
- If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. Any
- We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Admit
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