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.
ISAAC NEWTONThe Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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