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" Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. "
Isaac Newton
Truth
Simplicity
Confusion
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" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Gravity
Always
Place
" 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. "
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Gravity
Sun
Equal
" There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. "
Isaac Newton
Authenticity
Sure
Bible
" What goes up must come down. "
Isaac Newton
Must
Up
Goes
" The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments. "
Isaac Newton
Method
Experiments
Things
" Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent. "
Isaac Newton
I Am
Sun
Power
" 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.' "
Isaac Newton
Variety
God
Life
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Before
Date
Found
" '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 Newton
World
Body
God
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Forces
Quantity
Depend
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Me
Ocean
Truth
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Divided
Minds
May
" To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. "
Isaac Newton
Connected
Me
Honor
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Only
Experiments
Far
" We build too many walls and not enough bridges. "
Isaac Newton
Build
Enough
Many
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Uniform
Fly
Lines
" Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force. "
Isaac Newton
Motion
System
Sun
" Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. "
Isaac Newton
Art
Errors
" To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. "
Isaac Newton
Reaction
Brainy
Action
" This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. "
Isaac Newton
Powerful
Intelligent
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. "
Isaac Newton
Spiritual
True
Supreme
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Motion
Time
True
" The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent. "
Isaac Newton
Alone
Intelligent
Natural
" 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
Nature
Always
Measure
" My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success. "
Isaac Newton
Application
Success
Ordinary
" 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
Know
Own
Thief
" An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. "
Isaac Newton
Force
Motion
Outside
" Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest. "
Isaac Newton
Thought
Body
Light
" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "
Isaac Newton
Tact
Without
Art
" It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. "
Isaac Newton
True
Great
Matter