A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
ISAAC NEWTONAre not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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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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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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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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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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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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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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