Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTONTherefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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