Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
ISAAC NEWTONAn object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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The synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations.
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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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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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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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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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We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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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.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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