We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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 feign no hypotheses.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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