Isaac Newton Quotes about Art

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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Isaac Newton

Positive, Wisdom, Art

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Isaac Newton

Art, Errors

Principia Mathematica preface (1687) (translation by Andrew Motte)

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?

Isaac Newton

Art, Eye, Animal

Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

Isaac Newton

Art, Philosophy, Design

Sir Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte, N. W. Chittenden (1850). “Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, p.66