Physics, beware of metaphysics.
ISAAC NEWTONTis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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We 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.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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