Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTONPictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTONThe great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONIt is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
ISAAC NEWTONWhen two forces unite, their efficiency double.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONAre not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTONTo myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONI consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTONCentripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
ISAAC NEWTONIf others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
ISAAC NEWTONWe account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONTo explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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 NEWTON