I feign no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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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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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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It 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.
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