To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
ISAAC NEWTONWhere both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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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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Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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What goes up must come down.
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