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 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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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, “By thinking about it all the time.
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Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.
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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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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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