Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONWe 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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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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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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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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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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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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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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