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Isaac Newton

English Mathematician

Born: Dec 25, 1642

Died: Mar 20, 1727

Always Any Bodies God Matter Me

Related authors: Ada Lovelace Alan Turing Alfred North Whitehead Andrew Wiles Charles Babbage Isaac Barrow James Joseph Sylvester Ronald Fisher

It may be that there is no such thing as an equable motion, whereby time may be accurately measured. All motions may be accelerated or retarded, but the true, or equable, progress of absolute time is liable to no change. Isaac Newton

Time Change Progress Liable Absolute Retarded True Accelerate Motion Motions Accurately May Whereby Measured Thing

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. Isaac Newton

Respect Twofold Took Considered Ancient Rational Name Practical Demonstration Accurately Arts Proceeds Which Manual Mechanics Belong

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space. Isaac Newton

Nature Space Own Our Relative Dimension Immovable Some Determine Similar Absolute Remains Taken Without Always Movable Regard Anything Senses Spaces Which Bodies Measure External Position

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat. Isaac Newton

Without Shining Heat

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself. Isaac Newton

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business. Isaac Newton

Love Time Business People Thought King Own Every Our Trifling About My Time Occasion Printed Foreigners Mathematical Them Much Should Less Teased Away Things

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts. Isaac Newton

Matter Nothing Possibly More Finite Divided Parts Than Infinite Cannot

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter. Isaac Newton

Me Before Date Had He Make Him Method His Left Represent Sent Notice Appear Found Letter

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated. Isaac Newton

Matter Our Minds Distinguish Able Remain Divided Observation Particles Another Parts Mathematically May Bodies Separated Lesser

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions. Isaac Newton

Time Made Liable Other Philosophy General More Exceptions Hypotheses True Look Occur Till Very Contrary Accurate Accurately Any May Experimental Either Which Notwithstanding Nearly Phenomena Imagined

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