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.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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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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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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