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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

Isaac Newton

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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Determination Experiment Explanation Hypothesis Property
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Follow Funny One Liner Rule
Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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Infinite Matter Possible Science
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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Advance Connection Earth Honour Science
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Experiment Inquiry Mathod Proper Property
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Meditation Offspring One Liner Silence Truth
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Force Motion Object Science Straight
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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Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Further Giant Shoulder Stand
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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Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Bold Business Discover Greatness Guess Inspirational
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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False Human Nature Imagination Man Understand
Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Comfortable Herself Nature One Liner

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