Isaac Newton Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

  Isaac Newton

  Book, Principles, Prejudice

• Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions.

  Isaac Newton

  Nature, Philosophy, Book

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

• My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms.

  Isaac Newton

  Book, Science, Light

  Opticks Book One, Part I

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