I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONI consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONThe synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
ISAAC NEWTONI feign no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONWhat goes up must come down.
ISAAC NEWTONThere are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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 NEWTONHypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTONIt seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTONTherefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTONAll knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
ISAAC NEWTONGod’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
ISAAC NEWTONGravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONThe proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON