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.
ISAAC NEWTONTo myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
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Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.
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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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I feign no hypotheses.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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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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To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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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 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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It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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