Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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