Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
ISAAC NEWTONTact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
ISAAC NEWTONWe account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONHypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONA cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
ISAAC NEWTONI keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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 NEWTONThe description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
ISAAC NEWTONWhat we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTONWhen two forces unite, their efficiency double.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTONMy principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
ISAAC NEWTONNo old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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 NEWTONMy powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
ISAAC NEWTONThe best way to understanding is a few good examples.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTON