Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery action has an equal and opposite reaction.
ISAAC NEWTONGravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTONMy powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
ISAAC NEWTONIt 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 can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
ISAAC NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONA body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
ISAAC NEWTONI feign no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTONLive your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONI do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
ISAAC NEWTONIf 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 NEWTON