To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONIt 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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