Isaac Newton citáty

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„To, co víme, je kapka, co nevíme, je oceán.“

„Čas - to je prostě způsob, jakým příroda zajišťuje, aby se všechno neodehrávalo najednou.“

„Jak jste dosáhl tolika geniálních objevů? Tím, že jsem o nich přemýšlel.“

„Ani jeden veliký objev se nerodil bez smělého odhadu.“

„Člověk se musí rozhodnout buď nic nového nevytvořit, nebo se stát otrokem, aby nové obhájil.“

„Dobře rozvržený čas je známkou dobře uspořádané mysli.“

„2300 let nekončí před rokem 2132 ani po roce 2370. Časy a poloviční časy nekončí před rokem 2060.…. Může to skončit později, ale nevidím důvod pro jeho ukončení dříve.“

„Muži staví příliš mnoho zdí a málo mostů.“

„Platón je můj přítel - Aristoteles je můj přítel - ale můj největší přítel je pravda.“
Amicus Plato — amicus Aristoteles — magis amica veritas

„Dokážu spočítat pohyby nebeských těl, ale ne šílenství lidí.“

„Gravitace vysvětluje pohyby planet, ale nemůže vysvětlit, kdo uvádí planety do pohybu.“

„Bůh stvořil vše podle čísla, váhy a míry.“
Numero pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit.

„Proti každé akci vždy působí stejná reakce.“

„V Bibli existuje více důkazů autentičnosti, než bychom nalezli v jakýchkoli světských dějinách.“

„Pravdu lze vždy nalézt v jednoduchosti, nikoliv ve velkém množství a záměně věcí.“

„Podle mého soudu by žádné linie neměly být připuštěny do obyčejné geometrie kromě pravé linie a kruhu.“

„Ne každý pád možno vysvětlit zákonem o zemské přitažlivosti.“

„Dokážu spočítat pohyb nebeských těl, ale ne šílenství lidí.“

„Studoval jsem tyto věci - vy ne.“

„Druhou součástí pravého náboženství je naše povinnost vůči člověku.“

„Kdybych předpokládal hypotézu, mělo by to být toto“

„Když je člověk vzat v mystickém smyslu, jeho vlastnosti se často vyznačují jeho činy.“

„V případě jakéhokoli jiného důkazu by mě palec přesvědčil o existenci Boha.“

„Všechny postavy vášně souhlasí s rokem 34; a to je jediný rok, se kterým se všichni shodnou.“

„Viděl jsem dále než jiní, protože jsem stál na ramenech velikánů.“

“Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”

“A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”

“This most beautiful System of the Sun, Planets and Comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.”

“To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction”

“What goes up must come down.”

“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent”

“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”

“You have to make the rules, not follow them”

“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”

“Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.”

“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me”

“Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.”

“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”

“To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty, & leave the rest for others that come after you, than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.”

“Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?”

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

“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.”

“Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.”

“We must believe in one God that we may love & fear him. We must believe that he is the father Almighty, or first author of all things by the almighty power of his will, that we may thank & worship him & him alone for our being and for all the blessings of this life < insertion from f 43v > We must believe that this is the God of moses & the Jews who created heaven & earth & the sea & all things therein as is expressed in the ten commandments, that we may not take his name in vain nor worship images or visible resemblances nor have (in our worship) any other God then him. For he is without similitude he is the invisible God whom no eye hath seen nor can see, & therefore is not to be worshipped in any visible shape. He is the only invisible God & the only God whom we are to worship & therefore we are not to worship any visible image picture likeness or form. We are not forbidden to give the name of Gods to Angels & Kings but we are forbidden to worship them as Gods. For tho there be that are called Gods whether in heaven or in earth (as there are Gods many & Lords many) yet to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things & we in him & our Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things & we in him, that is, but one God & one Lord in our worship: One God & one mediator between God & man the man Christ Jesus. We are forbidden to worship two Gods but we are not forbidden to worship one God, & one Lord: one God for creating all things & one Lord for redeeming us with his blood. We must not pray to two Gods, but we may pray to one God in the name of one Lord. We must believe therefore in one Lord Jesus Christ that we may behave our selves obediently towards him as subjects & keep his laws, & give him that honour & glory & worship which is due to him as our Lord & King or else we are not his people. We must believe that this Lord Jesus is the Christ, or Messiah the Prince predicted by Daniel, & we must worship him as the Messiah or else we are no Christians. The Jews who were taught to have but one God were also taught to expect a king, & the Christians are taught in their Creed to have the same God & to believe that Jesus is that King.”

“Is not the Heat of the warm Room convey'd through the Vacuum by the Vibrations of a much subtiler Medium than Air, which after the Air was drawn out remained in the Vacuum? And is not this Medium the same with that Medium by which Light is refracted and reflected and by whose Vibrations Light communicates Heat to Bodies, and is put into Fits of easy Reflexion and easy Transmission?… And do not hot Bodies communicate their Heat to contiguous cold ones, by the Vibrations of this Medium propagated from them into the cold ones? And is not this Medium exceedingly more rare and subtile than the Air, and exceedingly more elastick and active? And doth it not readily pervade all Bodies? And is it not (by its elastick force) expanded through all the Heavens?”

“And upon a wing of abominations he shall cause desolation, even until the consummation, and that which is determined be poured upon the desolate. The Prophets, in representing kingdoms by Beasts and Birds, put their wings stretched out over any country for their armies sent out to invade and rule over that country. Hence a wing of abominations is an army of false Gods: for an abomination is often put in scripture for a false God; as where Chemosh is called the abomination of Moab, and Molech the abomination of Ammon. The meaning therefore is, that the people of a Prince to come shall destroy the sanctuary, and abolish the daily worship of the true God, and overspread the land with an army of false gods; and by setting up their dominion and worship, cause desolation to the Jews, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. For Christ tells us, that the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel was to be set up in the times of the Roman Empire, Matth.”

“As all regions below are replenished with living creatures… so may the heavens above be replenished with beings whose nature we do not understand. He that shall well consider the strange and wonderful nature of life and the frame of the Animals, will think nothing beyond the possibility of nature, nothing too hard for the omnipotent power of God. And as the Planets remain in their orbs, so may any other bodies subsist at any distance from the earth, and much more may beings, who have sufficient power of self motion, move whether they will, and continue in any regions of the heavens whatever, there to enjoy the society of one another, and by their messengers or Angels to rule the earth and convers with the remotest regions. Thus may the whole heavens or any part thereof whatever be the habitation of the Blessed, and at the same time the earth be subject to their dominion. And to have thus the liberty and dominion of the whole heavens and the choice of the happiest places for abode seems a greater happiness than to be confined to any one place whatever.”

“Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting the Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of the distance from the center.”

“One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.”

“Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibility; and are they not by their different inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes…? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?”

“The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus.”

“The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.”

“A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.”