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 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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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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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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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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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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