black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

Isaac Newton

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
ISAAC NEWTON

Confusion Finding Simplicity Truth
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTON

Absence Convince Existence God Proof Thumb
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 NEWTON

Earth Gravity Moon Motion Orbit Science
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
ISAAC NEWTON

Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
ISAAC NEWTON

Mathematics Men Old
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Motion Object Science Stay
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTON

Apple Drops Science Wonder
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTON

Advance Connection Earth Honour Science
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTON

Admit Appearance Cause Explanation Nature Sufficient
A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
ISAAC NEWTON

Air Atmosphere High Reach Water Weight
It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Force Happen Magnet Nature Quantity Reason
I 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 NEWTON

Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
Hypotheses 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 NEWTON

Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
ISAAC NEWTON

Religion Science
The 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 NEWTON

Description Geometry Mathematics Requirement Teaching
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
ISAAC NEWTON

Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Isaac Newton Quotes