To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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