No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
ISAAC NEWTONIt is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.
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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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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.
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Genius is patience.
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What goes up must come down.
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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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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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Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
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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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Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.
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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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Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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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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