The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONI see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
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Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
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God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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