Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONPlato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
ISAAC NEWTONThe best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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 NEWTONI have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
ISAAC NEWTONThe great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTONThe synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
ISAAC NEWTONHe who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTONAn object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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 NEWTONIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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 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 NEWTON