Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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