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.
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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Tis 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.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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