Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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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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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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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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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.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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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.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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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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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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