Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
ISAAC NEWTONWhat goes up must come down.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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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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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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 Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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