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.
ISAAC NEWTONI feign no hypotheses.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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