The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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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Genius is patience.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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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 I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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