Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
ISAAC NEWTONAbsolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
ISAAC NEWTONOh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
ISAAC NEWTONGod is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
ISAAC NEWTONPlato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONErrors are not in the art but in the artificers.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery 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 NEWTONGod created everything by number, weight and measure.
ISAAC NEWTONGod’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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 NEWTONNature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTONThe instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTONI consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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 NEWTONThe proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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 NEWTONA body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTON