If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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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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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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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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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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