If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTONTherefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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