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.
ISAAC NEWTONThe instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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