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" We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. "
Isaac Newton
Philosophy
Sublime
Account
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" 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
" To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. "
Isaac Newton
You
Man
Age
" 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
" 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
" I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. "
Isaac Newton
Belief
Daily
God
" Genius is patience. "
Isaac Newton
Patience
Genius
" '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
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Professors
Opposite
Never
" 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
" The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them. "
Isaac Newton
Space
Laws
Observe
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Man
Idea
God
" Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts. "
Isaac Newton
Matter
More
Divided
" 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
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Parents
Honor
God
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Understanding
Imagination
Man
" It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded. "
Isaac Newton
Experiments
Weight
Regarded
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Belong
Arts
Respect
" 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
" The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments. "
Isaac Newton
Method
Experiments
Things
" 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
" 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
" The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. "
Isaac Newton
Heat
Without
Shining
" 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
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Time
Look
May
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Hard
Beginning
End
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Isaac Newton
Always
Will
See
" 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
" If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought. "
Isaac Newton
Public
Done
Thought