If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
ISAAC NEWTONTis 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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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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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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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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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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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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