The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTONThe motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONCentripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
ISAAC NEWTONIf others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
ISAAC NEWTONA man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
ISAAC NEWTONSir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
ISAAC NEWTONGenius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTONPhysics, beware of metaphysics.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONErrors are not in the art but in the artificers.
ISAAC NEWTONThe way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
ISAAC NEWTONThe more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
ISAAC NEWTONPictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTONWhence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
ISAAC NEWTON