Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
ISAAC NEWTONPoetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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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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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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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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What goes up must come down.
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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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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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If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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