Isaac Newton Quotes

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Cause Explanation Force Intelligence Natural Wisdom
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
ISAAC NEWTON

Breast God Night Season Thief Time
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTON

Brain Cause Fiber Motion Nerve Photograph Vision
I 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 NEWTON

Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
ISAAC NEWTON

External Flow Mathematics Nature
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTON

Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTON

Believe God Heart Thinking
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
ISAAC NEWTON

Creation God Number Weight
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTON

Beginning God Particle Science
Tis 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 NEWTON

Explanation Leaving

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