Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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