It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
ISAAC NEWTONTo arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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