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.
ISAAC NEWTONA 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Genius is patience.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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