It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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 feign no hypotheses.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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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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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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