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 NEWTONPhilosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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