Isaac Newton Quotes And Sayings

In The Beginning Of The Year 1665, I Found The Method Of Approximating Series And The Rule For Reducing Any Dignity Of Any Binomial Into Such A Series.

It 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.

Resistance Is Usually Ascribed To Bodies At Rest, And Impulse To Those In Motion, But Motion And Rest, As Commonly Conceived, Are Only Relatively Distinguished; Nor Are Those Bodies Always Truly At Rest, Which Commonly Are Taken To Be So.

The Ancients Considered Mechanics In A Twofold Respect: As Rational, Which Proceeds Accurately By Demonstration, And Practical. To Practical Mechanics All The Manual Arts Belong, From Which Mechanics Took Its Name.

Errors Are Not In The Art But In The Artificers.

The Hypothesis Of Matter's Being At First Evenly Spread Through The Heavens Is, In My Opinion, Inconsistent With The Hypothesis Of Innate Gravity Without A Supernatural Power To Reconcile Them, And Therefore, It Infers A Deity.

The Moon Gravitates Towards The Earth And By The Force Of Gravity Is Continually Drawn Off From A Rectilinear Motion And Retained In Its Orbit.

The Same Law Takes Place In A System, Consisting Of Many Bodies, As In One Single Body, With Regard To Their Persevering In Their State Of Motion Or Of Rest. For The Progressive Motion, Whether Of One Single Body Or Of A Whole System Of Bodies, Is Always To Be Estimated From The Motion Of The Center Of Gravity.

The Same Thing Is To Be Understood Of All Bodies, Revolved In Any Orbits. They All Endeavour To Recede From The Centres Of Their Orbits, And Were It Not For The Opposition Of A Contrary Force Which Restrains Them To And Detains Them In Their Orbits, Which I Therefore Call Centripetal, Would Fly Off In Right Lines With A Uniform Motion.

The Smaller The Planets Are, They Are, Other Things Being Equal, Of So Much The Greater Density; For So The Powers Of Gravity On Their Several Surfaces Come Nearer To Equality. They Are Likewise, Other Things Being Equal, Of The Greater Density, As They Are Nearer To The Sun.

The Word 'God' Usually Signifies 'Lord', But Every Lord Is Not A God. It Is The Dominion Of A Spiritual Being Which Constitutes A God: A True, Supreme, Or Imaginary Dominion Makes A True, Supreme, Or Imaginary God.

We Are Certainly Not To Relinquish The Evidence Of Experiments For The Sake Of Dreams And Vain Fictions Of Our Own Devising; Nor Are We To Recede From The Analogy Of Nature, Which Is Wont To Be Simple And Always Consonant To Itself.

Christ Comes As A Thief In The Night, &Amp; It Is Not For Us To Know The Times &Amp; Seasons Which God Hath Put Into His Own Breast.

All Variety Of Created Objects Which Represent Order And Life In The Universe Could Happen Only By The Willful Reasoning Of Its Original Creator, Whom I Call The 'Lord God.'

God Made And Governs The World Invisibly, And Has Commanded Us To Love And Worship Him And No Other God; To Honor Our Parents And Masters, And Love Our Neighbours As Ourselves; And To Be Temperate, Just, And Peaceable, And To Be Merciful Even To Brute Beasts.

I Can Calculate The Motion Of Heavenly Bodies, But Not The Madness Of People.

God In The Beginning Formed Matter In Solid, Massy, Hard, Impenetrable, Movable Particles, Of Such Sizes And Figures, And With Such Other Properties, And In Such Proportion To Space, As Most Conduced To The End For Which He Formed Them.

I Have A Fundamental Belief In The Bible As The Word Of God, Written By Those Who Were Inspired. I Study The Bible Daily.

We Account The Scriptures Of God To Be The Most Sublime Philosophy.

Opposite To Godliness Is Atheism In Profession, And Idolatry In Practice. Atheism Is So Senseless And Odious To Mankind, That It Never Had Many Professors.

I Do Not Know What I May Appear To The World, But To Myself I Seem To Have Been Only Like A Boy Playing On The Seashore, And Diverting Myself In Now And Then Finding A Smoother Pebble Or A Prettier Shell Than Ordinary, Whilst The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All Undiscovered Before Me.

We Build Too Many Walls And Not Enough Bridges.

I Do Not Know What I May Appear To The World; But To Myself, I Seem To Have Been Only Like A Boy Playing On The Seashore, And Diverting Myself Now And Then In Finding A Smoother Pebble Or Prettier Shell Than Ordinary, While The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All Undiscovered Before Me.