Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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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Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.
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God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
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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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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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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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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.
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No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.
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Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
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The best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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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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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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