To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
ISAAC NEWTONHypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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What goes up must come down.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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Genius is patience.
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