If I am anything, which I highly doubt,... - Isaac newton - Quotes.Pub

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Doubt Quotes

Isaac newton Quotes

My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.

Book Quotes

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Crazy Quotes

All 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.

Understanding Quotes

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

Distance Quotes

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Truth Quotes

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Patience Quotes

If I have seen a little further, it is because of the height limit and absence of overhead wires.

Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the Planets and Comets in all manner of Courses through the Heavens.

I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale.

When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.

The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.

If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over.

A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.

I feign no hypotheses.

I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy.

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