My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
ISAAC NEWTONEvery body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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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.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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