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

Isaac Newton

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Explanation Force Gravity Heaven Sea
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Knowledge Play Sea Shell Stone Truth Understand Universe
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
ISAAC NEWTON

Confusion Finding Simplicity Truth
God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
ISAAC NEWTON

Authencity History Science
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Truth
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Attention Discover Inspirational Patience Success Talent Value
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Beginning God Particle Science
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Bold Business Discover Greatness Guess Inspirational
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Meditation Offspring One Liner Silence Truth
What goes up must come down.
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Come Deep Life One Liner Reality Science
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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Motion Object Science Stay
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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Description Geometry Mathematics Requirement Teaching
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTON

Agent Effect Insect Instinct Live Powerful Skill Wisdom
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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Admit Appearance Cause Explanation Nature Sufficient
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Breast God Night Season Thief Time

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