To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONWhence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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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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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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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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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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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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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