Action Quote by Isaac Newton

Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature…

— Isaac Newton

Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity,…

— Isaac Newton

“Four aspects of any action: time, measure, structure, flow p.”

— Guy Windsor

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to…

— Hugh Elliot

Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics…

— Murray Gell-Mann

I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be…

— Isaac Newton

The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to…

— Isaac Newton

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the…

— Isaac Newton

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

— Blaise Pascal

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

— Isaac Newton

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren…

— Thomas Traherne