"[1.] And first I suppose that there is……" — Isaac Newton
"[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a word, much like air in all respects, but far more subtile. 2. I suppose this aether pervades all gross bodies, but yet so as to stand rarer in their pores then in free spaces, & so much ye rarer as their pores are less ... 3. I suppose ye rarer aether within bodies & ye denser without them, not to be terminated in a mathematical superficies, but to grow gradually into one another."
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Isaac Newton
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137 Quotes by Isaac Newton
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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...
— Nikola Tesla
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Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether…
— Peter J. Carroll
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The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty…
— Leon M. Lederman
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We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical…
— Henry Moseley
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There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.
— Arthur Eddington
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In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to…
— Arthur Eddington
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In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night…
— Ezra Pound
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— Gail Carriger
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PREMONITIONS OF PAIN, PRECOGNITIONS OF FAME, OVERSTAND MY FOCUS THEN NOTICE MY OTHER AIM, YES I'M OVERLY OPEN WITH EVERYTHING…
— AEILEON
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