We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTONAn object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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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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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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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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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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