Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTONThe 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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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What goes up must come down.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
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