It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
ISAAC NEWTONI keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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