“And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain primitive or simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which not being made of any other bodies, or of one another, are the ingredients of which all those called perfectly mixt bodies are immediately compounded, and into which they are ultimately resolved: now whether there be any such body to be constantly met with in all, and each, of those that are said to be elemented bodies, is the thing I now question.” MeanMadeSaidBodyScienceCertainSpeakSimpleMistakePrinciplesMetsElementsDefinitionsIngredientsPrimitive Book:The Sceptical Chymist Source: The Sceptical Chymist
“Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.” MatterStatesBodyMovingLyingForceLinesDefinitionsPreservesInnateResistingEndeavourStraight LinesInertiaIndolence Author:Isaac Newton
“If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.” IfsBodyInfiniteDefinitionsSurfaceSensible Book:Physics Source: Physics
“There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.” BodyLightTruthTruth IsShadowErrorsDefinitionsSupremeDescriptionFalsehoodSublimePlatoContradictorySupreme BeingPlato S Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous. Also Essays on Imagination and Taste