Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.
Isaac Newton0
Next quotes
Isaac Newton:
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them intoIsaac Newton:
Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this AgIsaac Newton:
Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in detIsaac Newton:
I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners abouIsaac Newton:
I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have noIsaac Newton:
I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his methIsaac Newton:
If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth bIsaac Newton:
If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I dIsaac Newton:
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if vaIsaac Newton:
In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phe