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.
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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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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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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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.
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