We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
ISAAC NEWTON
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.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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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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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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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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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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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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