Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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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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The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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