The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONThere are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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Genius is patience.
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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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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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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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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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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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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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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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What goes up must come down.
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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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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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Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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