To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONMy principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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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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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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What goes up must come down.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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