If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONIf I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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