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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.

Isaac Newton

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
ISAAC NEWTON

Assign Cause Effect Natural Possible
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
ISAAC NEWTON

Deep Done Due Patience Public Service
I feign no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTON

Hypothesis Mathematics
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Body Force Science
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
ISAAC NEWTON

Brain Cause Fiber Motion Nerve Photograph Vision
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
ISAAC NEWTON

Cause Effect Natural Possible Science
Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
ISAAC NEWTON

Hypothesis
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
ISAAC NEWTON

Friendship Truth
To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
ISAAC NEWTON

Arrive Contemplation Requirement Simplicity Truth
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
ISAAC NEWTON

Discover Greatness Ocean Truth
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTON

Advance Connection Earth Honour Science
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.
ISAAC NEWTON

Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
ISAAC NEWTON

Beautiful Intelligence Planet Powerful Proceed Sun System
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
ISAAC NEWTON

Creation God Number Weight
It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
ISAAC NEWTON

Beginning God Particle Science

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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