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.
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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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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 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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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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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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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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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