It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Genius is patience.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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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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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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