If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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Genius is patience.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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 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.
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