Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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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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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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