If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTONThe synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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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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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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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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