It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
ISAAC NEWTONIt is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
ISAAC NEWTONThe proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTONThe great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTONIf 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 NEWTONThis most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
ISAAC NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
ISAAC NEWTONLive your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
ISAAC NEWTONThe motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTONTis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
ISAAC NEWTONErrors are not in the art but in the artificers.
ISAAC NEWTONPhilosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTON