« All All Quotes · Isaac Newton's Page
All Quotes by Isaac Newton
- 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…
- 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…
- Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires…
- . . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on…
- From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts…
- Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these…
- All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of…
- [1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a…
- 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 material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of…
- 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…
- I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on…
- Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.
- Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
- This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted…
- Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which…
- To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age
- I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,…
- As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea how the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
More All Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle