Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTONTherefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Genius is patience.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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My 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.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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What goes up must come down.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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