The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.
ISAAC NEWTONIt is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.
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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.
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It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
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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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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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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
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Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.
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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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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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