Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
ISAAC NEWTONSir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Genius is patience.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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