The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
ISAAC NEWTONThe moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTONWhence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
ISAAC NEWTONHe who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTONTact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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 NEWTONIf I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
ISAAC NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTONNothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
ISAAC NEWTONI have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
ISAAC NEWTONI understood. I have understood. I do understand.
ISAAC NEWTONWhat goes up must come down.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTON