We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONWe account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONI feign no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
ISAAC NEWTONThe proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONReligion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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 NEWTONTo myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONPictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONAbsolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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 NEWTONI have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
ISAAC NEWTONThe best way to understanding is a few good examples.
ISAAC NEWTONWhat we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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 NEWTON