The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONNo great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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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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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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