It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
ISAAC NEWTONTact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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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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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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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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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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