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.
ISAAC NEWTONThe centre of the system of the world is immovable.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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We 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.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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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 I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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