To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONAtheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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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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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.
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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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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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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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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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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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