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Body Quotes by Isaac Newton
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
- To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal…
- No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is…
- Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which…
- Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by…
- 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…
- A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
- The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations.
- Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what…
- Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body…
- Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and…
- Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.
- [1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
- OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn…
- How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived…
- God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine