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 NEWTONIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
-
-
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTON -
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTON -
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 -
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTON -
Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
ISAAC NEWTON -
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 -
Nothing 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 NEWTON -
Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTON -
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
ISAAC NEWTON -
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
ISAAC NEWTON -
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
ISAAC NEWTON -
The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTON -
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTON -
Genius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTON -
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTON