To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
ISAAC NEWTONThe moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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My 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.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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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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