Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
ISAAC NEWTONWe are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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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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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
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Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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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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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
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