If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTONTis 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.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONNothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
ISAAC NEWTONMy powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
ISAAC NEWTONThe synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
ISAAC NEWTONWhen two forces unite, their efficiency double.
ISAAC NEWTONWe account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
ISAAC NEWTONTherefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
ISAAC NEWTONI do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism 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.
ISAAC NEWTONWe 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.
ISAAC NEWTONThe instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTONI feign no hypotheses.
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