Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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