Quote #14

God created everything by number, weight and measure.

More from Isaac Newton

  1. In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
  2. I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
  3. If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
  4. The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practica…
  5. Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which re…
  6. It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And t…
  7. I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles; for I am induced by ma…
  8. Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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