If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
ISAAC NEWTONIf others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
ISAAC NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTONSir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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 NEWTONAbsolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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 NEWTONIt 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 NEWTONYet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
ISAAC NEWTONI have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
ISAAC NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONA body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTONI can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTONI consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTON