01UndatedBlind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
03UndatedIf I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giantsIsaac Newton / quote ↗
05UndatedTruth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
06UndatedA Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub.(from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)Isaac Newton / quote ↗
07UndatedTo explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one ageIsaac Newton / quote ↗
08UndatedPlato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
09UndatedFor I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
11UndatedIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
13UndatedGod who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
14UndatedIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
15UndatedWe 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.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
16UndatedGod 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 / quote ↗
17UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
18UndatedIt 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 / quote ↗
20UndatedTo 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 / quote ↗
21UndatedTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
22UndatedIf 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 / quote ↗
24UndatedIf I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
