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 NEWTONThe 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 NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
ISAAC NEWTONTo explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
ISAAC NEWTONI consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
ISAAC NEWTONI feign no hypotheses.
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 NEWTONThe best way to understanding is a few good examples.
ISAAC NEWTONNo old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTONAll knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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 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 NEWTONWe account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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 NEWTONOpposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
ISAAC NEWTONNothing 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