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 NEWTONTruth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
More Isaac Newton Quotes
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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 best way to understanding is a few good examples.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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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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Are not rays of light very small bodies emitted from shining substances?
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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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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You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
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Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
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