Creative Quotations from Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Isaac Newton
(1642-1727) born on Dec 25

English "mathematician, philosopher". "He was first to describe the laws of motion and universal gravitation; also invented the reflecting telescope, 1668."

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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

"If I have done the public any service, it is due to patient thought."

'Hypotheses non fingo.' I feign no hypotheses.

"Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right [straight] line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it."

"It is the weight, not numbers, of experiments that is to be regarded."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Opticks," Bk. III"
R:	"In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
A:	"'Principia mathematica', scholium"
N:	"the first law of motion, 'Principia mathematica', A. Motte, transl."
K:	The Correspondence of Isaac Newton