Isaac Newton

Quotes

• “In vulgar modern terms Newton was profoundly neurotic of a not unfamiliar type, but... a most extreme example. His deepe...”
• “Who is a liar, saith John, but he that denyeth that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist that denyeth the Father & the ...”
• “The prejudice for Sir Isaac has been so great, that it has destroyed the intent of his undertaking, and his books have b...”
• “The history of mathematics and mechanics for a hundred years subsequent to Newton appears primarily as a period devoted ...”
• “1. Fidelity & Allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land...”
• “The one book that turned out to be perhaps the most influential in guiding Newton's mathematical and scientific thought ...”
• “There is a traditional story about Newton: as a young student, he began the study of geometry, as was usual in his time,...”
• “The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and...”
• “Alexander Pope, lines written for Newton's monument in Westminster Abbey, as quoted in The Epigrammatists : A Selection ...”
• “Newton to Bentley, 10 December 1692 (first letter), The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, ed. H. W. Turnbull (Cambridge: C...”
• “Do not all charms flyAt the mere touch of cold philosophy?There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:We knew her woof, he...”
• “Newton had a profound interest in things Jewish. ...Newton owned five of the works of Maimonides... He also possessed Ch...”
• “This first appears in the Isaac Newton : A Biography (1934), citing unpublished papers by John Conduitt reporting an ane...”
• “As quoted in Symmetry in Plants (1998) by Roger V. Jean and Denis Barabé, p. xxxvii, a translation of a Latin phrase he ...”
• “The view of space that exists independent of any relationship is called the absolute view. It was Newton's view, but it ...”
• “At the end of the [19th] century no extension or analogue of the Newtonian gravitation formula has been generally accept...”
• “Multiple-prism arrays were first introduced by Newton (1704) in his book Opticks. In that visionary volume Newton report...”
• “It is one of the most intriguing facts in the history of science that the two most influential theories concerning the s...”
• “My quotations from Newton suggest the motive which induced him to take a stand against the use of hypotheses, namely, th...”
• “Newton did not show the cause of the apple falling, but he shewed a similitude between the apple and the stars. By doing...”
• “Newton's age has long since passed through the sieve of oblivion, the doubtful striving and suffering of his generation ...”
• “I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for...”
• “When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the ...”
• “Cited in Rules for methodizing the Apocalypse, Rule 9, from a manuscript published in The Religion of Isaac Newton (1974...”
• “John Maynard Keynes, "Newton the Man," in The Royal Society Newton Tercentenary Celebrations (1947): this starts off wit...”
• “Such, then, is the great Newtonian induction of universal gravitation, and such its history. It is indisputably and inco...”
• “After the same Manner in Geometry, if a Line drawn any certain Way be reckon'd for Affirmative, then a Line drawn the co...”
• “John Maynard Keynes, "Newton the Man," in The Royal Society Newton Tercentenary Celebrations, 15-19 July 1946 (Cambridge...”
• “Henry Pemberton. View of Newton's Philosophy, (1728), preface; The bold passage is subject of the 1809 article "Remarks ...”
• “Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrat...”
• “A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and f...”
• “In order to put his system into mathematical form at all, Newton had to devise the concept of differential quotients and...”
• “Newton's exegesis merged with a prophetic tradition that helped create during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the...”
• “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 sea-shore...”
• “Christiaan Huygens, writing five years after the appearance of Newton's Principia, as quoted in A. R. Manwell, Mathemati...”
• “Newton to Bentley, 25 February 1692/3, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, ed. H. W. Turnbull (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ...”
• “Farkas Bolyai, as quoted by Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematics (1894) p. 302 books.google, citing Franz Schmidt, "...”
• “Newton's proof of the law of refraction is based on an erroneous notion that light travels faster in glass than in air, ...”
• “Newton's version of gravity violates common sense. How can one thing tug at another across vast spans of space? ...Newto...”
• “I esteem his [Newton's] understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the grea...”
• “This is a variation on a much older adage, which Roger Bacon attributed to Aristotle: Amicus Plato sed magis amica verit...”
• “And from my pillow, looking forth by lightOf moon or favouring stars, I could beholdThe antechapel where the statue stoo...”
• “Anecdote reported by Dr. Robert Smith, late Master of Trinity College, to his student Richard Watson, as something that ...”
• “The Simplicity of Figures depend upon the Simplicity of their Genesis and Ideas, and an Æquation is nothing else than a ...”
• “No monument should stand over [my] grave, only an apple-tree, in memory of the three apples; the two of Eve and Paris, w...”
• “Variant written by Aaron Hill, preserved in Hill's Works (1753), Vol. IV, p. 92; mentioned in The Epigrammatists : A Sel...”
• “The landscape has been so totally changed, the ways of thinking have been so deeply affected, that it is very hard to ge...”
• “One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Col...”
• “We shall find it more conducive to scientific progress to recognise, with Newton, the ideas of time and space as distinc...”
• “There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. Suppose Newton had founded a Church of...”