Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTONIt is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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