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 NEWTONLet me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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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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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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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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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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What goes up must come down.
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Every 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.
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