The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.
ISAAC NEWTONIt is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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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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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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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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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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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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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A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.
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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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