God’ 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 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 NEWTONHypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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 NEWTONNature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONThe Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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 NEWTONWhat we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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 NEWTONIf I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
ISAAC NEWTONIn the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
ISAAC NEWTONI understood. I have understood. I do understand.
ISAAC NEWTONGenius is patience.
ISAAC NEWTONCentripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
ISAAC NEWTONAn object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTON