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.
ISAAC NEWTONNature is very consonant and conformable with herself.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.
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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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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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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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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 proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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When two forces unite, their efficiency double.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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