The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONPictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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What goes up must come down.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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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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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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