Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth. - Isaac Newton
Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
- Isaac Newton
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible. - Isaac Newton
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of tru… - Isaac Newton
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of tru…
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation - Isaac Newton
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
You have to make the rules, not follow them - Isaac Newton
You have to make the rules, not follow them
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean. - Isaac Newton
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. - Isaac Newton
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess. - Isaac Newton
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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