Isaac Newton

Against filling the heavens with fluid mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great objection arises from the regular and very lasting motions of the planets and comets in all manner of courses through the heavens.

Isaac Newton

All knowledge and understanding of the universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

Isaac Newton

All the characters of the passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree.

Isaac Newton

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

Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?

Isaac Newton

Blind 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

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

Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.

Isaac Newton

Chickens at rest tend to stay at rest. Chickens in motion tend to cross roads.

Isaac Newton

Christ comes as a thief in the night, and it is not for us to know the times and seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

Isaac Newton