We Are To Admit No More Causes

Our Ordination: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About The Times Of The End, A Body Of Men Will Be Raised Up Who Will Turn Their Attention To The Prophecies, And Insist Upon Their Literal Interpretation, In The Midst Of Much Clamor And Opposition.

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.

If I Have Done The Public Any Service, It Is Due To My Patient Thought.

Plato Is My Friend, Aristotle Is My Friend, But My Greatest Friend Is Truth.

You Sometimes Speak Of Gravity As Essential And Inherent To Matter. Pray Do Not Ascribe That Notion To Me, For The Cause Of Gravity Is What I Do Not Pretend To Know, And Therefore Would Take More Time To Consider Of It.