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- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from…
- 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…
- I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not…
- This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that…
- 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…
- Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the…
- 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…
- Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned…
- I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated…
- ...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.
- Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
- 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…
- 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…
- A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to…
- The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine…
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