Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
ISAAC NEWTONA body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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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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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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