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" I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter. "

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" Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space. "

Isaac Newton

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" As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. "

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

" It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change. "

" Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion. "

" 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.' "

" Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. "

" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "

" 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 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. "

" What goes up must come down. "

Isaac Newton

Must

Goes

" We build too many walls and not enough bridges. "

" 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. "

" God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance. "

" It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. "

" Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments. "

" If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties. "

" My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. "

" In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence. "

Isaac Newton

Existence

Alone

" 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. "

" The centre of the system of the world is immovable. "

" That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated. "

" I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. "

" 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 best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them. "

" The 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. "

" The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent. "

" To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. "

Isaac Newton

Connected

Honor

" A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. "

" In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions. "