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.
ISAAC NEWTONIf 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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