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.
ISAAC NEWTONI feign no hypotheses.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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 can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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