We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTONTruth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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