It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
ISAAC NEWTONThe 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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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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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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What goes up must come down.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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