We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTONYet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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