Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes. Isaac Newton More Quotes by Isaac Newton More Quotes From Isaac Newton From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts of Rays whereof that Light consists, when by their several Refrangibilities they are separated from one another, do tinge Paper or any other white Body whereon they fall. For those Colours ... are unchangeable, and whenever all those Rays with those their Colours are mix'd again, they reproduce the same white Light as before. Isaac Newton light white fall What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another? Isaac Newton stars fall moving To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. Isaac Newton distinction source honor 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. Isaac Newton quality body science 'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least. Isaac Newton mystery matter hot Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations. Isaac Newton body light 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 size space matter I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common. Isaac Newton space bears people 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. Isaac Newton circles doe math The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. Isaac Newton vapor heat shining The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. Isaac Newton ancient law math When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date. Isaac Newton trinity erasmus atheism Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision. Isaac Newton nerves vision brain I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these calculations [of Pi], having no other business at the time Isaac Newton calculations ashamed figures Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah . Isaac Newton hadrian credit christian Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit Light so copiously, as by the Emission and Re-action of its Light, and the Reflexions and Refractions of its Rays within its Pores to grow still hotter, till it comes to a certain period of heat, such as is that of the Sun? Isaac Newton rays light science God 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 spiritual animal thinking To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy. Isaac Newton philosophy two science 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. Isaac Newton distance squares science We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Isaac Newton razors causes science
