Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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 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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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I 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.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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