If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
ISAAC NEWTONMy principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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I 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.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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