If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
ISAAC NEWTONI 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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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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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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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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