Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTONA cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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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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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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 motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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