Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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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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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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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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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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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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