Physics, beware of metaphysics.
ISAAC NEWTONTo me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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 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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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