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Firsts Quotes by Isaac Newton
- 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 best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties by…
- I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full…
- 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…
- You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. ... Morpheous is my last companion ; without 8 or 9…
- His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the…
- Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall…
- [1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a…
- 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…
- All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of…
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