Isaac NewtonThinkers

Absolute space is, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable.

Absolute time is flows equably without regard to anything external.

Accumulated knowledge is the idea that if one has seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more'.

Color is not a part of things themselves but is more a sort of veneer. It is something on things rather than in them.

A Discovery has never been made without a bold guess.

Guessing is at the root of all discovery. No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Knowledge is scarce. What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Light is colorless. Rays of light have no color. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this color.

Light is what illuminates matter (or not, in which case you have darkness), like a torch or flame, as a separate thing. As such, color and light are not part of things themselves but more a sort of veneer, or something on things rather than in them.