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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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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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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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