It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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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 is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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