It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
ISAAC NEWTONTo explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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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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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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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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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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