Isaac Newton

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If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

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Scientific progress Progress

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Isaac Newton

Source

Letters of Isaac Newton

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Letter

Language

English

Time

1676 1670s 17th century

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Letter to Robert Hooke. 5 Feb. 1676.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. Letter to Hooke, 5 February 1675/6." The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Cause and effect Laws of physics Physics Science

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Isaac Newton

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Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 3.

Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.

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Principia

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Newton's laws of motion Laws of physics

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Isaac Newton

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Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 1.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 1.

God in the Beginning form'd Matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable 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 form'd them.

Isaac Newton

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

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Atomism Creation of the world God and creation

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Isaac Newton

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Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

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Treatise

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Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1704 1700s 18th century

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1704, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks. Dover Publications, 2012, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 31.

The alteration of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

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Principia

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Newton's laws of motion Laws of physics

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Isaac Newton

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Principia

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Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 2.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 2.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being... This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont, to be called Lord God παντοκρατωρ or Universal Ruler.

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Principia

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Origin of the universe Creation of the world Creation God

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Isaac Newton

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Principia

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Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1713 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Scholium Generale. [General Scolium]. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy] vol. 2. London: Benjamin Motte, 1729.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "General Scolium." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Isaac Newton

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Gravity God Origin of the universe Science and religion

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Isaac Newton

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English

Time

1702 1700s 18th century

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Newton, Isaac. A New and Most Accurate Theory of the Moon's Motion. London: A. Baldwin, 1702.

Whence is it that Nature does nothing in vain: and whence arises all that Order and Beauty which we see in the World?... does it not appear from Phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly.

Isaac Newton

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

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God and nature Nature

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Isaac Newton

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Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light

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Treatise

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Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1704 1700s 18th century

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. London: Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, 1704, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 28.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. Opticks. Dover Publications, 2012, bk. 3, pt. 1, question 28.

Errors are not in the art, but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Mistakes Human fallibility Science

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Isaac Newton

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Principia

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Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, preface.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, the author's preface.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

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Occam's razor Truth

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Isaac Newton

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English

Time

1680 1680s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Newton, Isaac. "Rules for Methodising/Construing the Apocalyps." Untitled Treatise on Revelation, c. 1680, rule 9.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

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Truth Philosophers

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Isaac Newton

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Latin

Time

1664 1660s 17th century

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Newton, Isaac. Questiones Quaedam Philosophcae. c. 1664.