Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
ISAAC NEWTONGravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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What goes up must come down.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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